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HÆMOGLOBIN C was first detected among American Negroes, and figures for its incidence range between 1.41 and 3 per cent2. As the anomaly seemed virtually absent in the white race, it was reasonable to suppose that the gene responsible for it had been imported from Africa in the times of slave trade. This was soon confirmed by a survey of Edington and Lehmann3, who found hæmoglobin C to be present in 12 per cent of 200 hospital out-patients in Accra (Gold Coast). Recently, individuals with this hæmoglobin have been reported from French North Africa4. It is also known to exist in Liberia and in French West Africa (Neel, J. V., personal communication).
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VANDEPITTE, J., MOTULSKY, A. Abnormal Hæmoglobins in the Kasai Province of the Belgian Congo. Nature 177, 757 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177757a0
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