Application of the AMLprofiler Diagnostic Microarray in the South African Setting

Table 2

Sample characteristics.

Sample characteristic	Value
Number of study participants	53
Number of samples analysed	65
Source of sample
Bone marrow (BM)	49
Peripheral blood	16 (with 12 matching BM)
Gender
Male	35 (66%)
Female	18 (34%)
Race distribution
Caucasian	20 (37.7%)
Black African	33 (62.3%)
Health sector
Public	35 (66%)
Private	18 (34%)
Age distribution	44 ± 17.4
Blast count	55% ± 26%

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