Haemoglobin J Tongariki (alpha-115 alanine--aspartic acid): the first new haemoglobin variant found in a Pacific (Melanesian) population.

D. Carleton Gajdusek, Jean Guiart, R. L. Kirk, Robin W. Carrell, D. H. Irvine, Pamela A.M. Kynoch, H. Lehmann

Journal of Medical Genetics · 1967 · 65 citations · 6 references

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In the course of a medico-genetic-anthropological investigation in I963 of the population of the island of Tongariki, in the Shepherd group of the New Hebrides, a haemoglobin variant was detected with a mobility which was greater than that of normal Hb on electrophoresis at alkaline pH, both by starch gel and by paper electrophoresis.

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