Description : Since identification of deficiency of G6PD (Carson et al., 1956) and of its X-chromosomal
determination (Childs et al., 1958) in the 1950s and demonstration of electrophoretic
variants of this enzyme in the early 1960s (Boyer et al., 1962), the genetic, clinical
and biochemical significance of this polymorphism has been found to be great. G6PD
(EC 1.1.1.49) is in the hexose monophosphate pathway, the only;