The important
indicators of hemotopoietic function and a number of clinical parameters, such
as blood oxygen-carrying capacity, inflammation, and hemostasis are circulating
blodd cell coutns and indices. By performing whole-exome sequence association
analyses of hematologic quantitative traits in 15,459 community-dwelling
individuals, followed by in silico replication in up to 52,024 independent
samples, we identified two previously undescribed coding variants associated
with lower platelet count.