Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Public Health 2251-6085 3 3 1974 09 15 106 110 S. Rahbar H. Heidary I. Mostafavi 2015 10 03 A simple, rapid new technique is described for the electrophoresis of hemo­globin when screening large human populations. The method uses a drop of finger tip's blood dried on a thick filter paper as the specimen. The simplicity of the sampling, tagging, transportation and electrophoresis, provides a reliable procedure for surveys of large population. In our hand 200 specimens were screened during a working day by two technicians with a very good resolution of hemoglobin band. Even small amount of fetal hemoglobin could be separated from normal adult hemoglobin by this technique. During last 8 months, 20,000 individua1s were screened by this technique and a number of known and unknown hemoglobin variants were detected which are reported elsewhere. https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/1432 https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/download/1432/1413