The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
Term:
increased hemoglobin concentration distribution width
higher than normal standard deviation of the distribution of erythrocytes by their cellular (individual) hemoglobin concentrations; high HDW is indicative of some types of anemia/thalassemia
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
increased HDW; increased haemoglobin concentration distribution width