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Increasing recognition of haemoglobin Le Lamentin
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The haemoglobin variant Le Lamentin (α20 His → Gln) was first described in 1982 in a negro family in the French West Indies.1 Subsequently, it has been reported in a Japanese family2 and in a Spanish family,3 and recently it was found in a British white man whose haemoglobin displayed an unusual peak when his blood was being assayed for glycated haemoglobin (haemoglobin A1c) by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).4 …