Chromatogram from the ion exchange high performance liquid chromatography Bio-Rad Variant II using the high resolution β thalassaemia programme in a patient without diabetes but with the Hb Sherwood Forest variant. Chromatogram from the ion exchange high performance liquid chromatography Bio-Rad Variant II using the high resolution β thalassaemia programme in a patient without diabetes but with the Hb Sherwood Forest variant. T Lahousen et al. J Clin Pathol 2002;55:699-703 Copyright © by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Association of Clinical Pathologists. All rights reserved.