[Familial study of Hb A2 Babinga (delta 136 Glyc----Asp) in South America].

In November 1983, HB A2 Babinga was found in a Columbian male in Paris. Blood samples from Columbia showed that his mother and one of his brothers were also Hb A2 Babinga carriers and that his mother and another brother and his sister were Hb S carriers.

[Detection of hemoglobin abnormalities in 35,000 exchange students].

Distribution of abnormal hemoglobins and thalassemia worked out of 35,000 foreigners from 99 countries examined in Paris.

[Double heterozygote Hb C/Hb O Arab in a family of the Maghreb (author's transl)].

Studies on five generations of the Maghrebian family representing two double heterozygous subjects Hb C/Hb O Arab. Review of literature concerning Hb O Arab; identification and screening techniques; historic and genetic implications.

[Hemoglobin anomalies and medico-biological data in 10,000 Africans (author's transl)].

Since 1962, the hemoglobin of all the foundation scholars of the French Cooperation addressed to the C.E.A.

Hemoglobin J Cairo: beta 65 (E9) Lys leads to Gln, A new hemoglobin variant discovered in an Egyptian family.

The present report describes clinical, hematological and biochemical studies of a 27-year old Egyptian woman in whom a fast moving Hb variant was found. The abnormal Hb constituted 48% of the total erythrocyte Hb of the propositus and her father. Structural studies demonstrated that in the abnormal Hb lysine beta 65 is replaced by glutamine.