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IT has been known for many years that thalassæmia exists among the Chinese. Hæmoglobin H was discovered in a Chinese family1 and has since been seen repeatedly in other Chinese families2 3. Thus in Singapore, over a period of fifteen months, 15 unrelated Chinese patients with anæmia were examples of hæmoglobin H disease. Another hæmoglobin, Q, has so far been observed only once in a Chinese family4. Of the other hæmoglobin variants, E has occasionally been noticed in Chinese. However, this is a rare finding, and the frequency cannot be compared with that observed in the neighbouring Burmese or Siamese, and certain Malayan, Cambodian and Indonesian communities. Hæmoglobins S, C and D, which are present at some frequency in certain non-Mongoloid populations, have so far never been described in Chinese, neither have been the rarer hæmoglobins I, K, L, M, N, O and P.
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VELLA, F., AGER, J. & LEHMANN, H. An Abnormal Hæmoglobin in a Chinese: Hæmoglobin G . Nature 182, 460–461 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182460a0
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