Prevalence, phenotype and inheritance of benign neutropenia in Arabs

BMC Blood Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Denic, Srdjan ^a   Showqi, Saad ^b   Klein, Christoph ^c   Takala, Mohamed ^b   Nagelkerke, Nicollas ^a   Agarwal, Mukesh M ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b AL AIN HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CANCER SCREENING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; SICKLE CELL BETA THALASSEMIA;

EID: 65349184113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2326-9-3     Document Type: Article

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