- ►annals.org [PDF] MM Hsieh, JE Everhart, DD Byrd-Holt, JF … - Annals of internal medicine, 2007 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Benign reductions in neutrophil counts may be more common at certain
ages and in certain ethnic groups and may be affected by sex and smoking status. ... Objective: To determine differences in neutrophil counts in the US ... Cited by 30 - Related articles - All 4 versions
Y Shoenfeld, O Ben-Tal, S Berliner, J Pinkhas - Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy= Biomédecine & …, 1985 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Benign familial leukopenia (BFL) is a hereditary phenomenon, encountered in
several ethnic groups. Subjects bearing BFL are believed to be affected by
bacterial infection in no greater incidence than normal subjects. In our ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - All 3 versions
VR Grann, E Ziv, CK Joseph, AI Neugut, Y … - British journal of haematology, 2008 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Neutropenia associated with race/ethnicity has essentially been unexplained and,
although thought to be benign, may affect therapy for cancer or other illnesses.
A recent study linked a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (rs2814778) in ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - All 10 versions
- ►nih.gov MA Nalls, JG Wilson, NJ Patterson, A Tandon, … - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2008 - Elsevier White blood cell count (WBC) is an important clinical marker that varies among
different ethnic groups. African Americans are known to have a lower WBC than
European Americans. We surveyed the entire genome for loci underlying this ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
- ►bmj.com D Phillips, K Rezvani, BJ Bain - British Medical Journal, 2000 - jcp.bmj.com This study was designed to determine whether ethnic neutropenia is caused by an
increased proportion of neutrophils being present in the marginated granulocyte
pool. Thirty two healthy volunteers, half of whom were African or ... Cited by 17 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
MA Weingarten, E Kahan, A Brauner - Acta Haematologica, 1992 - content.karger.com In a long-term follow-up of 47 Yemenite patients with benign familial
leucopenia, the mean white-cell count was 4,578 with a standard deviation of
940. During bacterial infections, the average leucocyte increment was the ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - All 5 versions
BJ Bain, D Phillips, K Thomson, D Richardson, … - British journal of haematology, 2000 - interscience.wiley.com Healthy subjects of African ancestry, including Afro-Caribbeans, have been
observed to have lower total white cell counts and neutrophil counts than
healthy Caucasian subjects. The cause of this ethnic neutropenia is ... Cited by 41 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
D Reich, MA Nalls, WHL Kao, EL Akylbekova, A … - PLoS Genetics, 2009 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Persistently low white blood cell count (WBC) and neutrophil count is a
well-described phenomenon in persons of African ancestry, whose etiology remains
unknown. We recently used admixture mapping to identify an approximately 1- ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - All 8 versions
K Rezvani, AM Flanagan, U Sarma, N … - Acta Haematologica, 2000 - content.karger.com Healthy individuals with African ancestry have lower neutrophil counts than
Caucasians. It has previously been postulated that this was consequent on either
a diminished bone marrow granulocyte reserve or an altered distribution of ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►critcaremed.org FB Mayr, AO Spiel, JM Leitner, C Firbas, T … - Critical Care Medicine, 2008 - journals.lww.com Objective: The Duffy receptor is a promiscuous receptor for chemokines and
selectively binds CXC and CC chemokines with high affinity. Preclinical data
show that presence of the Duffy receptor on red blood cells may influence ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
