Hemoglobin I: an inherited hemoglobin anomaly.

By D. L. RUCKNAGEL, E. B. PAGE AND W. N. JENSEN S TUDIES OF HEMOGLOBIN by the various technics of electrophoresis aud alkali denaturatiomi have resulted imi a strikimig development in the knowledge of abnormal hemoglobins amid in the hereditary hemolytic amieniias, some of them never previously recognized. During the course of the examination of the electrophoretic properties of the hemoglobimis of Negro patients admitted to the medical service of the hospital, a previously undescribed abnormal hemoglobimi characterized by a rapid electrophoretic mobility at pH 8.6 was detected.’ The abmiormal hemoglohins already described include types S, C, D, E, G, amid H. It. is proposed that. this seventh abnormal pigment he designated as hemoglobin J#{149}2