Abnormal Hemoglobin Studies in Koreans

한국인의 이상혈색소에 관한 연구

Two males and one female in the group of 5020 Korean school children and university students in Seoul and Taejon were found to have a show hemoglobin to normal hemoglobin A. In all three subjects the show component migrated at a rate characterstic of the G hemoglobin. By urea-starch-gel electrophoresis in alkaline pH and Chernoff method ws demonstrated that another 3 cases of abnormal hemoglobin also were beta-chain variants. This was reconfirmed by hybridization experiment with canine hemoglobin. And the results of family test of 3 case of abnormal hemoglobin were heterozygous carrier.