Genetic influences on peripheral blood cell counts: A study in baboons

Blood

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1210-1214

  Mahaney, Michael C ^b   Brugnara, Carlo ^b   Lease, Loren R ^b   Platt, Orah S ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BABOON; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEREDITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME;

EID: 23744481593     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-12-4863     Document Type: Article

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