Sentences with phrase «fetal haemoglobin»
The extra fetal haemoglobin in their blood, which has a very strong affinity for oxygen, does the work of the defective adult haemoglobin.
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Carriers of this mutation have fetal haemoglobins levels as high as 20 per cent of total haemoglobin, while most people's fetal haemoglobin levels fall to about 1 per cent of total haemoglobin after birth.