Multiple loci are associated with white blood cell phenotypes.

White blood cell (WBC) count is a common clinical measure from complete blood count assays, and it varies widely among healthy individuals. Total WBC count and its constituent subtypes have been shown to be moderately heritable, with the heritability estimates varying across cell types. We studied 1...

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Main Authors: Michael A Nalls, David J Couper, Toshiko Tanaka, Frank J A van Rooij, Ming-Huei Chen, Albert V Smith, Daniela Toniolo, Neil A Zakai, Qiong Yang, Andreas Greinacher, Andrew R Wood, Melissa Garcia, Paolo Gasparini, Yongmei Liu, Thomas Lumley, Aaron R Folsom, Alex P Reiner, Christian Gieger, Vasiliki Lagou, Janine F Felix, Henry Völzke, Natalia A Gouskova, Alessandro Biffi, Angela Döring, Uwe Völker, Sean Chong, Kerri L Wiggins, Augusto Rendon, Abbas Dehghan, Matt Moore, Kent Taylor, James G Wilson, Guillaume Lettre, Albert Hofman, Joshua C Bis, Nicola Pirastu, Caroline S Fox, Christa Meisinger, Jennifer Sambrook, Sampath Arepalli, Matthias Nauck, Holger Prokisch, Jonathan Stephens, Nicole L Glazer, L Adrienne Cupples, Yukinori Okada, Atsushi Takahashi, Yoichiro Kamatani, Koichi Matsuda, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Toshihiro Tanaka, Michiaki Kubo, Yusuke Nakamura, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Naoyuki Kamatani, Michael Stumvoll, Anke Tönjes, Inga Prokopenko, Thomas Illig, Kushang V Patel, Stephen F Garner, Brigitte Kuhnel, Massimo Mangino, Ben A Oostra, Swee Lay Thein, Josef Coresh, H-Erich Wichmann, Stephan Menzel, JingPing Lin, Giorgio Pistis, André G Uitterlinden, Tim D Spector, Alexander Teumer, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Vilmundur Gudnason, Stefania Bandinelli, Timothy M Frayling, Aravinda Chakravarti, Cornelia M van Duijn, David Melzer, Willem H Ouwehand, Daniel Levy, Eric Boerwinkle, Andrew B Singleton, Dena G Hernandez, Dan L Longo, Nicole Soranzo, Jacqueline C M Witteman, Bruce M Psaty, Luigi Ferrucci, Tamara B Harris, Christopher J O'Donnell, Santhi K Ganesh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21738480/?tool=EBI