A patient with sickle cell trait and nutritional megaloblastic anemia was found to have a much smaller proportion of hemoglobin S during the megaloblastic phase than after recovery. This observation suggests preferential synthesis of hemoglobin A by megaloblastic bone marrow in the presence of the A-S trait.

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1963
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