Mild Microcytic Anemia in an Infant with a Compound Heterozygosity for Hb C (HBB: c.19G > A) and Hb Osu Christiansborg (HBB: c.157G > A)

Maria O. BoucherDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USACorrespondence[email protected]

David H.K. ChuiDepartments of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Bruce A. WodaDepartment of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA and

Peter E. NewburgerDepartment of Pediatrics and Department of Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Abstract

We report an infant with a compound heterozygosity for Hb C (HBB: c.19G > A) and Hb Osu Christiansborg (HBB: c.157G > A) and a phenotype of mild microcytic anemia with target cell morphology but without overt hemolysis.

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Mild Microcytic Anemia in an Infant with a Compound Heterozygosity for Hb C (HBB: c.19G > A) and Hb Osu Christiansborg (HBB: c.157G > A)

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