The imperative for race-specific neutrophil count reference intervals in white cell count evaluation

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 771-772

  Arewa, Oladimeji ^a   Cembrowski, George S ^b   Arewa, O P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOZAPINE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLOOD GROUP DUFFY SYSTEM; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 1; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD;

ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHILS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84856387008     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-9684(15)30420-X     Document Type: Letter

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