The fingerprints of the abnormal hemoglobin of M.W. (hemoglobin C Georgetown) differed from those of hemoglobin A in that the neutral-band peptide designated by Ingram 13 as No. 4 (peptide TpI in ...

If you have hemoglobin SC disease, a type of sickle cell disease, it means your red blood cells are a different shape and can't carry oxygen efficiently. They form a C-shape, similar to a farm ...

Hemoglobin SC — which accounts for about 25% of sickle cell disease cases in the United States — occurs when a person has one copy of the gene for hemoglobin C disease and one copy of the ...

Hemoglobin sickle cell disease: People with this milder type of SCD inherit one “S” sickling gene and one “C” sickling gene, which is another type of abnormal hemoglobin gene.

In the November 15 Nature, David Modiano and colleagues report a large-scale study aimed at clarifying the role of hemoglobin C (HbC) in resistance to Plasmodium falciparum malaria (Nature 2001, ...

This type of hemoglobin causes RBCs to distort into a C-shape, or the shape of a sickle. Unlike healthy RBCs, sickle cells only live for 10–20 days. Why do they differ?