Medical Definition of Haemoglobin electrophoresis
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A special diagnostic procedure which identifies abnormal haemoglobin proteins by the way they migrate in an electric field (electrophoresis).
The electric field is used to separate haemoglobin proteins from each other and allow the identification of different components. This can be used to diagnose thalassaemia, sickle cell disease and haemoglobin C disease.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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