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Sumitra Dash, MD, Department of Hematology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (India): Titus H.J. Huisman, MD, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912-3331 (USA) Hb J Paris I or α212(A10)alanine-aspartic acid ß2, a fast moving human hemoglobin variant, was first described in a woman of Spanish origin living in Paris [1]. Subsequently it was observed in Portugal [2], Iran [3], Yugoslavia [4] and in an Italian family [5]. We have recently discovered this hemoglobin in a 26-year-old healthy laboratory worker of North Indian (Punjabi Hindu) origin. He was a healthy person with normal hemogram. No inclusion bodies were found in the red cells incubated with new methylene blue. Heat test was normal. Hb electrophoresis performed on starch-agarose gel with Tris-EDTA-borate buffer at pH 8.6 showed a hemoglobin fraction with a faster mobility than Hb A and a second Hb A2 band along with the normal Hb A and Hb A2 band. On quantitation, the major abnormal Hb fraction was 26.4% of the total hemoglobin. This abnormal fraction could not be separated from Hb A on acid agar gel electrophoresis. Globin treated with 8 Murea and mercaptoethanol showed an anomalous alpha chain which moved slower than the normal, both on cellulose acetate and in CM cellulose-52. Structural analysis of the abnormal hemoglobin was carried out at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, USA. It showed a substitution of the alpha chain at position 12, where the alanine residue had been substituted by an aspartic acid residue. This substitution corresponds to the Hb J Paris I described by Rosa et al. [1]. Out of the nine families previously described with this abnormal hemoglobin variant [1–5], six families showed direct or indirect evidence of an Arabic origin. Our subject is a native of Punjab (India) and to the best of his knowledge comes from a genuinely Punjabi family without admixture of any other populations. References Rosa, J.; Maleknia, N.; Vergoz, D.; Dunet, R.: Une nouvelle hémoglobine anormale: Γhémoglobine J a Paris 12 Ala-Asp. Nouv. Revue fr. Hémat. 6: 423–426 (1965). Trinaco, C; Martins De Melo, J.; Lorkin, P.H.; Lehmann, H.: Hemoglobin J Paris in the South of Portugal (Algarve). Acta haemat. 39: 291–298(1968).

First Observation of Hemoglobin J Paris I [Alpha-2–12(A10)Alanine-Aspartic Acid Beta-2] in the Indian Subcontinent