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The atomic structure of hemoglobin, determined by Max Perutz and colleagues 4, showed that this residue position is located on the surface of the protein. The mutation makes sickle cell hemoglobin ...

Sickle cells grow into crescent shapes, instead of the round red blood cells seen in people without the gene New research suggests that the history of sickle-cell disease goes back to a mutation ...