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Hb Nancy and Hb Osler: two distinct genetic variants with identical clinical and hemoglobin phenotype.
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie III, Sciences de la vie - 1 May 1998
Préhu C, Godart C, Vigneron C, Wajcman H
Abstract excerpt
Three hemoglobin variants (Hb Nancy, Osler and Fort Gordon), carrying the same Tyr-->Asp substitution at position beta 145 (HC2), have been independently described in 1975 in patients with marked polycythemia. The first one was found in a French caucasian family from Lorraine, and the two others in African Americans. Two unrelated individuals with Hb Osler have been recently reinvestigated at the DNA level and...
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