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For Shannon's information measure, we found a similar trend with marginal significance between Rxo1 diversity and precipitation, and no relationship between AFLP diversity and precipitation ( Fig. 6 ).

For the more general GEPHAST analysis, a strong association is found for BMS2753 (P = 0.018, corrected for 30 tests) plus a borderline significant association at INRA111 again.

To explore three of these putative associations further, we added further flanking markers to INRA111, BMS2753 and BMS495, the latter included because it yielded borderline significance in most of the tests applied to it.

We surveyed the presence of scute anomalies for each captured individual throughout Iberian populations [24] and confirmed an increasing trend of anomalies from southern to northern populations.

A possibly significant epitope (max antigenic index 3.4) was identified and highlighted on the image between amino acids 301–309.

Due to a marginally significant decline in probability of reproduction among the largest trees in the sample, a second-order term was included in the model, and the inflection point calculated using a numerical approximation with 95% confidence limits generated by bootstrapping (500 simulations).

Serum calcium showed a positive trend with the number of MSy components, independently of BMI.

The number of PH3-positive cells was moderately reduced at 19 hpf and greatly reduced by 28 hpf ( Figure 3C–F ), and the differences between mutant and wild type were highly significant at both stages ( Figure 3G and legend).

While high-grade cancer was not associated with calcium levels, the Ca/Mg ratio was associated with an increasing trend for greater risk of high-grade prostate cancer.

The effect of FA was highly significant in all cases while that of DA was variable depending on sex and condition.

We confirmed the association of rs1800693 in TNFRSF1A (p 4.19×10−7, OR 1.12, 7,665 cases, 8,051 controls) and rs17445836 near IRF8 (p 5.35×10−10, OR 0.84, 6,895 cases, 7,580 controls and 596 case-parent trios) The SNP rs17824933 in CD6 also showed nominally significant evidence for association (p 2.19×10−5, OR 1.11, 8,047 cases, 9,174 controls, 604 case-parent trios).

Effect of FFAR1 polymorphisms on measures of insulin sensitivity There was a nominally significant (unadjusted) association of the G allele of rs2301151 with a ∼73% higher disposition index (DI) and a trend (P = 0.06) towards a ∼52% higher endogenous (1st phase/acute) insulin release (AIRg) when assessed as the recessive model only, accounting for age, gender and BMI ( Table S2 ).

In all cases where we measured nests multiple times, repeated measures of individual nests were highly correlated and highly significant (intraclass correlation coefficient for consistency in repeated measures of nest-wall thickness for: American Robin 0.74, F 8,36 = 15.0; Carduelis 0.75, F 8,36 = 16.2, Yellow Warbler 0.97, F 9,40 = 182; P <0.00001 for all three groups [33] ), suggesting that our nest measures for each nests were highly consistent.

Nest-wall thickness did not differ significantly between sites for American Robins ( t = −1.386, P = 0.18) and Savannah Sparrows ( t = 1.285, P = 0.21); robins showed a trend for thicker nest walls in northern Manitoba, while the sparrows showed the opposite pattern ( Fig. 3 ).

If a large number of data is available, even a weak trend with many data points scattered far away from the trend line and thus with a correlation coefficient (r 2 value) near zero can be highly significant [3] .

Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) Detection Thresholds Patients exhibited a highly significant loss of thermal (z-values for CDT: −1.37±1.57; WDT: −1.42±1.66; and TSL: −1.43±1.37) and mechanical detection (MDT: −1.53±1.29; VDT: −1.15±1.97) at the affected hand compared to age and gender-matched healthy controls (all p<<0.0001).

That said, a pair of adjacent bins in bipolar disorder (10.2 and 10.3) and 2 pairs of adjacent bins in schizophrenia (3.4 and 3.5, 6.5 and 6.6) were implicated by nominally significant GSMA findings.

In the interval, a trend approaching significance for the Group x Age Periods interaction, in only one of the two tests of verbal memory (CVLT DR ), prevented us from concluding there was a possible variation across age-periods.

Strain energy values showed small increase with tetrahedral element quantity, but the slope was on the order of 10 −9 and does not represent a significant trend.

The significant slope ( p <0.1) was used as a criterion for identifying either a positive or a negative trend.

For all experiments, p values of less than 0.05 were considered significant, and p values of 0.05–0.1 were considered marginally significant.

In contrast, the new endemics, with their significantly higher ancestral reproductive rates, show a clear trend of increasing fecundity as they diversified in an Australia already saturated with rodents.

A strong trend to higher values of IgG2 was observed in the DENV/TLR group, but did not reach statistical significance compared to the DENV group.

Thirty days after the infection, neutralizing antibodies showed a trend to be higher in animals administered TLR/DENV compared to animals that were infected with DENV only (results no shown).

pestis ( Table 2 ); therefore the highly significant difference in biofilm-dependent blockage produced by the y3730 mutant cannot be accounted for by any decreased ability to produce a chronic infection in the flea gut.