Blood, 1970, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 158-165.
© 1970 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
A Family with Three 
-Thalassemia Homozygotes
BRACHA RAMOT 1,
ISAAC BEN-BASSAT 1,
DOROTHEA GAFNI 1, and
REYAD ZAANOON 1
1 Department of Hematology, Tel-Hashomer Government Hospital and Tel-Aviv
University Medical School and Medical Section, Shifa Government Hospital, Gaza, Israel.
An Arab family with three homozygotes for 
-thalassemia is described.
The single hemoglobin present in their red cells is fetal hemoglobin. A mild
hemolytic condition was seen in the propositus, while the two other siblings
are completely normal. The main differential diagnosis of this condition is
homozygosity for persistent fetal hemoglobin gene.
Submitted on June 18, 1969
Accepted on August 27, 1969