Genetics: From Genes To Genomes (6th International Edition)
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Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., ? Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., ? Janice Fischer, ? Leroy Hood Dr.
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Chapter 10, Problem 26P
Certain individuals with mild forms of β-thalassemia produce, in addition to normal adult hemoglobin with two α chains and two β chains, lower levels of an unusual, so-called Lepore hemoglobin with two α chains and two chains in each of which the N-terminal half comes from a normal δ chain and the C-terminal half comes from a normal β chain. Certain other individuals who are asymptomatic produce a different, unusual anti-Lepore hemoglobin that contains two α chains and two chains in which the N-terminal half comes from a normal β chain and the C-terminal half comes from a normal δ chain.
| a. | Describe an event that could give rise to both Lepore and anti-Lepore hemoglobins |
| b. | Are the mildly thalassemic individuals with Lepore hemoglobin homozygotes or heterozygotes for the unusual allele? |
| c. | Why might these mildly thalassemic people produce less Lepore hemoglobin than normal adulthemoglobin? |
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