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Hereditary Persistence of Foetal Haemoglobin associated with a γβ Fusion Variant, Haemoglobin Kenya

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DURING the course of a health survey project on a group of Jaluo living close to Lake Victoria in Western Kenya, four individuals out of 1,011 examined were found to heterozygous carriers of a haemoglobin (Hb) variant with the properties of the γβ fusion mutant Hb Kenya1. Analysis of their haemoglobin constitution, and that of affected family members together with four heterozygotes found during a second survey which is now in progress, provided further evidence about the genetic control human foetal haemoglobin.

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  1. Department of Haematology, University of Liverpool,

    J. B. CLEGG & D. J. WEATHERALL

  2. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,

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CLEGG, J., WEATHERALL, D. & GILLES, H. Hereditary Persistence of Foetal Haemoglobin associated with a γβ Fusion Variant, Haemoglobin Kenya. Nature New Biology 246, 184–186 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio246184a0

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