“…More recently, we have observed that little or no pathology arises in compound heterozygous patients of HbC, including SC compound heterozygotes, that also express hemoglobins shown to increase the nucleation kinetics of liganded HbC crystallization (Nagel et al, 1993;Lawrence et al, 1997). These studies have also served in the identi®cation of some residues involved in the intermolecular contacts of the crystal (Hirsch et al, 1988(Hirsch et al, , 1998Hirsch, Witkowska et al, 1997;Hirsch, Rybicki et al, 1997;Lin et al, 1989).…”