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Serum immunoglobulin levels in white, Asiatic and Bantu blood donors


L.V. Milner
F. Calitz

Abstract

Healthy Banru male adults have about 40% more IgG, 30% more IgA and 32% more IgM than comparable Whites. Healrhy Asiatic male adulrs have  about 20% more IgG, 23% more IgA and 7% more IgM rhan comparable Whites. This must be borne in mind when interprering immunoglobulin assays 0/1 individual parients. We agree with other authors' that the  diagnostic value of individual immunoglobulin levels becomes questionable, in view of '11e wide range of values found even in a normal population.

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