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HÆMOGLOBIN M, discovered in 1948 by Hörlein and Weber1, is an abnormal hæmoglobin of rare occurrence, three variants of which have since been identified2,3. In two members of a family of Leipzig, Germany—a child and his father, the former having been clinically studied, on account of congenital methæmoglobinæmia, by one of us4—we were able to demonstrate a new type of hæmoglobin M.
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BETKE, K., GRÖSCHNER, E. & BOCK, K. Properties of a Further Variant of Hæmoglobin M. Nature 188, 864–865 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188864a0
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