Genome-wide association study of white blood cell count in 16,388 African Americans: the continental origins and genetic epidemiology network (COGENT).

Genome-wide association study of white blood cell count in 16,388 African Americans: the continental origins and genetic epidemiology network (COGENT).

Total white blood cell (WBC) and neutrophil counts are lower among individuals of African descent due to the common African-derived "null" variant of the Duffy Antigen Receptor for Chemokines (DARC) gene. Additional common genetic polymorphisms were recently associated with total WBC and W...

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Main Authors: Alexander P Reiner, Guillaume Lettre, Michael A Nalls, Santhi K Ganesh, Rasika Mathias, Melissa A Austin, Eric Dean, Sampath Arepalli, Angela Britton, Zhao Chen, David Couper, J David Curb, Charles B Eaton, Myriam Fornage, Struan F A Grant, Tamara B Harris, Dena Hernandez, Naoyuki Kamatini, Brendan J Keating, Michiaki Kubo, Andrea LaCroix, Leslie A Lange, Simin Liu, Kurt Lohman, Yan Meng, Emile R Mohler, Solomon Musani, Yusuke Nakamura, Christopher J O'Donnell, Yukinori Okada, Cameron D Palmer, George J Papanicolaou, Kushang V Patel, Andrew B Singleton, Atsushi Takahashi, Hua Tang, Herman A Taylor, Kent Taylor, Cynthia Thomson, Lisa R Yanek, Lingyao Yang, Elad Ziv, Alan B Zonderman, Aaron R Folsom, Michele K Evans, Yongmei Liu, Diane M Becker, Beverly M Snively, James G Wilson
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/21738479/?tool=EBI

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