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Chemicals and Drugs [D] » Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12] » Proteins » Hemeproteins » Globins » Hemoglobins » Hemoglobin Subunits » alpha-Globins
Description
Members of the alpha-globin family. In humans, they are encoded in a gene cluster on CHROMOSOME 16. They include zeta-globin and alpha-globin. There are also pseudogenes of zeta (theta-zeta) and alpha (theta-alpha) in the cluster. Adult HEMOGLOBIN is comprised of 2 alpha-globin chains and 2 beta-globin chains. MeSH
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