Hb New York首先由Ranney等在纽约的一个中国人和美国人通婚的家庭中发现,随后Black-well等在我国台湾省高雄地区也有发现,1980年Saen报道在哥斯达黎加二个无关的家庭中发现这种变异体。最近我国湖南、江西、广东、广西的汉族人群中均发现此种变异体。1982年4月我们在广西毛难族聚居的环江县下南公社普查异常血红蛋白时发现两例快速异常血红蛋白,经化学结构分析证明它们均为血红蛋白纽约(HbNew YorK),其发生率为毛难族人群的0.1％,此为我国除汉族外,在其它民族中 Hb New York was first discovered by Ranney et al. In an intermarry between a Chinese and a New York-based family. Subsequently, Black-well et al. Were also found in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province of China. Saen reported in 1980 that this was found in two unrelated families in Costa Rica Variants. Recently, we found such variants in Han Chinese in Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi in our country. In April 1982, we found two cases of abnormal hemoglobin in the south of Huanjiang County, Huanjiang County, where the Mao Nobles lived in Guangxi. The results of chemical structure analysis showed that all of them were hemoglobin New York (HbNew YorK) 0.1% of ethnic groups, this is our country in addition to the Han nationality, among other ethnic groups