Diagram accounting for the various combinations of DHS (as a pure hematologic picture), pseudohyperkalemia, and PE^DHS.

^a indicates DHS with variable expression. ^bindicates pseudohyperkalemia with variable expression. Except for family BI, PE^DHS was inconstant, as far as we could assess. Family WO was provisionally considered, by default, as devoid of pseudohyperkalemia (see text).