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Hæmoglobin E in Egypt

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HÆMOGLOBIN E is generally thought to occur exclusively among people of Mongoloid origin ; the greatest incidence being in the Burmese1, Siamese2, Cambodians3, Indonesians4 and Malayans5. The occurrence of hæmoglobin E in other peoples, for example, the Eti-Turks, an Arabic-speaking group living in southern Turkey6, is usually accompanied by definite historic or familial ties with the South Eastern Asian. The discovery of hæmoglobin E in Egypt among a family which, so far as could be determined, has no direct relationship to the Asiatic (Mongoloid) is now reported.

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  1. U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo Office of Naval Attaché, Department of State, Washington, D.C., 25

    KIRK C. HOERMAN, KARIM KAMEL & AHMED Y. AWNY

  2. Department of Clinical Pathology, Ein Shams University School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt

    KIRK C. HOERMAN, KARIM KAMEL & AHMED Y. AWNY

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HOERMAN, K., KAMEL, K. & AWNY, A. Hæmoglobin E in Egypt. Nature 189, 69–70 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189069a0

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