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IN the alkali denaturation method of Singer, Chernoff and Singer1 the one-minute residue of normal adult hæmoglobin gives a spectrophotometric reading of 0.5–1.8 per cent ‘alkali resistant hæmoglobin’. It is well known1,2,3, that most of this residue is not true fœtal hæmoglobin, but some other hæm-compound, the nature of which is unknown.
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BETKE, K., MARTI, H. & SCHLICHT, I. Estimation of Small Percentages of Fœtal Hæmoglobin. Nature 184, 1877–1878 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841877a0
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