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Average hearing level (adjusted OR: 1.09, 95% CI: 0.99–1.20) and best speech discrimination level (1.03, 0.99–1.07) showed a marginally significant association.

In our second, more recently collected Spanish case-control series (series III), comprising 451 PTC cases and 540 controls, we confirmed the highly significant association for functional variant rs1867277 in the FOXE1 promoter region, under the same multiplicative model, with an OR (per allele) of 1.44 (95%CI = 1.19–1.74; P = 2.0×10 −4 ).

We also identified a possible association between GSTM1 null polymorphism and prostate cancer biochemical recurrence risk with borderline significance (HR = 1.29, 95%CI = 0.97–1.71).

DCE-CT Imaging Biomarkers Significant reduction of plasma volume and almost significant reduction of plasma flow quantified by DCE-CT was observed in the therapy group.

In diabetes, there was a nonsignificant trend toward elevated baseline levels of RHOA.

PLGA/bPEI-DNA nanoparticles with lower molecular weight bPEIs did not show as strong GFP expression as nanoparticles with 25 kDa bPEI; however, cytotoxicity of 25 kDa bPEI alone with DNA was quite significant.

There was a clear trend to towards higher faecal corticosterone concentrations in untreated mice that underwent vasectomy.

However, in the one-step model two additional subject-level predictors significantly affect the amount of shift: agreeableness and narrator sexual orientation, both predictors which were near at least marginal significance ( ) in Model 2.

The by-subject and by-word random intercept variances have estimated values and , and are both highly significant (i.e., using a likelihood ratio test [72] ).

Regarding the NPPEN estimations, similar long-term trends were noticeable as we observed an increasing trend in estimated probabilities of occurrence; higher probabilities being estimated toward the end of the time series, reflecting the establishment of the species.

The positive value of γ f in the interactive WalkMate group demonstrated that there was an increasing trend in the fractal scaling exponent, which suggests that there was a gain in 1/ f fluctuation of the stride intervals of the PD subjects over the course of four days.

Furthermore, the association became marginally significant when other confounding variables such as BMI were included [30] .

The second most associated locus is adjacent to MC1R and a third highly significant locus, also located on ECA3, is in close proximity to the KIT gene.

Intriguingly, cytoplasmic p300, but not nuclear p300 expression correlated significantly with tumor thickness and showed a clear trend of correlation with ulceration status.

Although stratified analyses were carried out among these important confounders and risk factors and no difference was observed by meta-regression, several results showed borderline significance.

A decreasing trend towards the T H 1 cytokines (IFNγ) in KC, may suggest presence of complex imbalance in the cytokines leading to altered epithelial and stromal function in this disease [ 16 ].

observed decreased IL-13 level in tears of severe KC and an increasing trend in IL-17 [ 16 ].

Furthermore, the expression of Tpsb2 derived from ovarian MCs showed a significant positive correlation with the expression of Tex101 , expressed in nest-stage oocytes, and showed a trend of negative correlation with the expression of Zp3 , expressed in the primary follicle [ 35 , 36 ] ( Figure 4B , 6K, and 6L).

Results The effect of environmental changes on soil physicochemical indices and gene abundances In the first experiment, for the six soil physicochemical indices (total C, total N, NH 4 + -N, NO 3 - -N, water contents and pH), as PFG number decreased from 3 to 0, only NO 3 - -N content showed an increasing trend, although its difference among the four PFG gradients was non-significant ( P >0.05; Fig. 1a1–f1 ).

Our study showed that phase shift decreased in PCA in the patients with moderate BA stenosis when comparing with normal condition and the reduction of phase shift in severe BA stenosis is highly significant when comparing with normal and moderate condition.

The production of IL-4 may be significant because it could contribute to airway hypersensitivity responses that are common in SCD children [41] – [43] .

Incomplete adherence showed a trend toward negative association with sacrifice of other necessities for health care needs (meaning those with complete adherence were more likely to report making such sacrifices).

In multivariable models, childhood trauma and depressive symptom severity were highly significant predictors of incomplete ART adherence.

Because of the complexity of the analyses and many highly significant results, AIC (Akaike's Information Criterion) was employed to identify the best fitting models.

Patients with positive B7-H1 expression showed a trend of shorter survival time.