Human beta-globin gene HpaI polymorphism in the non-white Cuban population
G Martinez1, R Ferreira, B Colombo
1Instituto de Hematología e Immunología, La Habana, Cuba.
Gene Geography : a Computerized Bulletin on Human Gene Frequencies
|April 1, 1987
Abstract:
The frequency of the association between the beta A, beta S and the beta C genes with the 13.0 kb HpaI restriction fragment has been determined in 72 non-white individuals with different hemoglobin phenotypes giving a value of 0.00 for the beta A gene, 0.52 for the beta S gene and 1.00 for the beta C gene. These data indicate that this association in the Cuban non-white population is similar to that reported for the American Blacks living in the U.S.A. East Coast and for the French West Indies.
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