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The Differential Leucocyte Count in Mongols

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Alexander Shapiro*
Affiliation:
Middlesex Colony

Extract

Turpin and Bernyer (1947), working on the influence of heredity on the Arneth count (Cooke and Ponder's (1927) modification), found that in mongols it was shifted to the left, i.e., that their polymorphonuclears had fewer lobes and were therefore more immature.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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