Two new sheep haemoglobins, one of which is replaced by haemoglobin C in anaemia |
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| Authors: | L Kilgour S C Dixon E M Tucker |
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| Institution: | AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge, UK. |
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| Abstract: | Two new haemoglobin variants, provisionally named Hb G and Hb H, were found during a survey of 295 Welsh Mountain cross-bred sheep. Both haemoglobins appear to be beta chain variants controlled by genes allelic to those for the common forms Hb A and Hb B. Studies on an anaemic Hb AH and an Hb AG type sheep showed that Hb G, like Hb A, is replaced by Hb C in anaemia whereas Hb H, like Hb B, is not replaced. |
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| Keywords: | haemoglobin sheep beta chain variants anaemia |
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