Abstract
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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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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