An electrophoretically slowly moving hemoglobin variant, Hb Quin-Hai was found in an 8-year-old boy and in his father, during a survey for abnormal hemoglobins in Quin-Hai County, Hainan Island, Guangdong, P.R.C. Both carriers were clinically and hematologically normal. Structural studies indicated a new variant beta 78 (EF2) Leu replaced by Arg.
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