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IN recent years, the presence of different abnormal hæmoglobins not only in human beings but also in some species of animals has been described. It is still a question whether this genetically controlled deviation is limited to the synthesis of hæmoglobin or whether other abnormal proteins (for example, the related myoglobin) are synthesized at the same time. Singer et al. 1 studied this problem in patients with sickle cell anæmia; they used spectroscopic and electrophoretic methods, but failed to demonstrate the presence of an abnormal type of this muscle protein.
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VAN DER HELM, H., TIMMER, R. & HUISMAN, T. Myoglobins from Sheep Homozygous for Different Hæmoglobin Types. Nature 180, 240–241 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180240a0
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