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SUBMITTER: Jain D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5968624 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jain Deepti D Hodonsky Chani J CJ Schick Ursula M UM Morrison Jean V JV Minnerath Sharon S Brown Lisa L Schurmann Claudia C Liu Yongmei Y Auer Paul L PL Laurie Cecelia A CA Taylor Kent D KD Browning Brian L BL Papanicolaou George G Browning Sharon R SR Loos Ruth J F RJF North Kari E KE Thyagarajan Bharat B Laurie Cathy C CC Thornton Timothy A TA Sofer Tamar T Reiner Alexander P AP
Human molecular genetics 20170301 6
Circulating white blood cell (WBC) counts (neutrophils, monocytes, lymphocytes, eosinophils, basophils) differ by ethnicity. The genetic factors underlying basal WBC traits in Hispanics/Latinos are unknown. We performed a genome-wide association study of total WBC and differential counts in a large, ethnically diverse US population sample of Hispanics/Latinos ascertained by the Hispanic Community Health Study and Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). We demonstrate that several previously known WBC-assoc ...[more]