Abstract:Abstract: Objective:To analyze the HbA1c results of double heterozygotes of hemoglobin(Hb)NewYork and β-thalassemia detected by five different HbA1c detection systems, and compare the early-warning abilities of erroneous glycosylated hemoglobin results for Hb NewYork and β-thalassemia heterozygotes. Methods:Peripheral blood samples from 40 patients without hemoglobinopathies with different range of HbA1c levels were collected to evaluate the consistency of the detected results. Variant Ⅱ system was used as the reference system which successfully completed NGSP Level Ⅰ laboratory certification. Variant Ⅱ Turbo 2.0(VⅡT), Capillary 2 Flex Piercing(2FP), Primus Ultra2(Ultra2)and Roche Modular PPI(PPI)800 were used as the comparative systems. The HbA1c in 2 sera from the patients with compand heterozygotes of Hb NewYork was detected by the above systems. Hemoglobin electrophoresis was performed. Gentypes of αand β-globin genes were analyzed by GAPPCR, hybridization and dideoxy chain termination method. Results:The HbA1c values in nonhemoglobinophthy samples obtained using VⅡT 2.0, Ultra2, C2FP and PPI systems were well correlated with that of VⅡ system. The hemoglobin genotypes of the two cases of compand heterozygotes were aa/aa, βIVS2654/βNewYork and aa/aa, β4142/βNewYork, respectively. The proportions of HbA were all 0 while the proportions of Hb NewYork were 93.5% and 94.0% respectively. The HbA1c results of the two cases detected were 4.3%(23 mmol/mol)and 4.5%(26 mmol/mol)by VⅡ, 4.5%(26 mmol/mol)and 4.6%(27 mmol/mol)by VⅡT 2.0, no values and no values by C2FP, 4.1%(21 mmol/mol)and 4.3%(23 mmol/mol)by Ultra2 and 4.2%(22 mmol/mol)and 4.8%(29 mmol/mol)by PPI systems, respectively. All the systems did not send warning for abnormal signs in profiles and results. Conclusion:The five systems presented different earlywarning ability for the double heterozygotes of Hb NewYork and β-thalassemia. The compand heterozygotes should theoretically not contain HbA1c, but the systems VⅡ, VⅡT, Ultra2 and PPI showed detectable results of HbA1c indicating all the four systems were not able to provide with earlywarning. C2FP system did not report HbA1c result so it exhibited earlywarning ability for the double heterozygote.