Hb Thailand	alpha56(E5)Lys->Thr

CONTACT		External; crevice
HEMATOLOGY		Normal in the heterozygote
ELECTROPHORESIS		Hb X moves ahead of Hb A on starch gel at alkaline pH
CHROMATOGRAPHY		Not reported
STRUCTURE STUDIES		Tryptic digestion; separation of peptides by fingerprinting; amino acid analysis
DNA ANALYSES		Not reported; presumed mutation AAG->ACG; alpha2 or alpha1
FUNCTIONAL STUDIES		Normal oxygen affinity
STABILITY		Not reported
OCCURRENCE		Found in a 32-year-old Thai male blood donor
OTHER INFORMATION		Quantity in the heterozygote 28%

REFERENCES
1.		Pootrakul, S., Boonyarat, D., Kematorn, B., Suanpan, S., and Wasi, P.: Hemoglobin, 1:781, 1977.

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This material is from the book A Syllabus of Human Hemoglobin Variants (1996) by Titus H.J. Huisman, Marianne F.H. Carver, and Georgi D. Efremov, published by The Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation in Augusta, GA, USA. Copyright © 1996 by Titus H.J. Huisman. All rights reserved. Neither this work nor any part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, microfilming and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission.