"Pseudo-Abnormal" Hemoglobins

"Pseudo-abnormal" hemoglobins.

Abnormal Hemoglobins in Turkey.

The presence of HbS was reported in Turkey for the first time in the late fifties by Aksoy et al. This was followed by other reports by the same author revealing the presence of several other abnormal hemoglobins in Turkey. So far up to present 42 abnormal hemoglobins have been identified in the Turkish population. In addition to the studies conducted in Turkey, many European researchers report...

Abnormal hemoglobins in a quarter million people.

Hemolysates of erythrocytes from more than a quarter million people in Alabama were electrophoresed on cellulose acetate, pH 8.4, and those samples exhibiting an abnormality were also electrophoresed in citrate agar, pH 6.0. The globin chains of mutants other than Hb S and C were electrophoresed in urea-mercaptoethanol buffers at both pH 8.9 and pH 6.0, and 60 of them were also analyzed structu...

Distribution of Abnormal Hemoglobins in Puerto

By RAMON M. SUAREZ, ROBERTO Buso, LEO M. MEYER AND S. T. OLAVARRIETA T HE FIRST STUDY on sicklemia in Puerto Rico was that of Pons and Oms ( 1934) #{149}l They reported an incidence of sickling in 5.6 per cent of the StIl)ject5 studied. sIore recently ( 1957 ) Torregrosa, Rivera Trujillo and Ruiz Soler2 reported an incidence cf sicklemia of 4.2 per cent in a series of 618 Puerto Ricans. In a gr...

An Updated Review of Abnormal Hemoglobins in the Turkish Population

Two previous reviews by Altay and Akar concerning the " Abnormal Hemoglobins in Turkey " appeared in the journal several years ago [1,2]. Since then, several other variants have been reported in both international and national journals. The aim of this mini-review was to compile the newly published abnormal hemoglobins in the Turkish population since these two previous papers [1,2]. During the ...