Research Article

Application of the AMLprofiler Diagnostic Microarray in the South African Setting

Table 2

Sample characteristics.

Sample characteristicValue

Number of study participants53
Number of samples analysed65
Source of sample
 Bone marrow (BM)49
 Peripheral blood16 (with 12 matching BM)
Gender
 Male35 (66%)
 Female18 (34%)
Race distribution
 Caucasian20 (37.7%)
 Black African33 (62.3%)
Health sector
 Public35 (66%)
 Private18 (34%)
Age distribution44 ± 17.4
Blast count55% ± 26%

Age distribution and blast count are expressed as mean ± standard deviation.