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. 1974 Mar;11(1):25–30. doi: 10.1136/jmg.11.1.25

Haemoglobin F Malaysia: α2γ2 1 (NA1) Glycine→Cysteine; 136 Glycine

Lie-Injo Luan Eng 1,2,*, H Kamuzora 1,2,†, H Lehmann 1,2
PMCID: PMC1013084  PMID: 4837284

Abstract

Structural studies of an abnormal haemoglobin found in a Chinese newborn but not in her parents, showed it to be a new γ-chain variant, Hb F Malaysia.

The first residue of the γ-chain was Cys and not Gly, and the γ-chain was of the type in which residue 136 is Gly and not Ala.

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