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Similar results were obtained on the mean QA score across the 29 items, which dropped from 1.68 (in 2011) to 1.51 (repeat sites; borderline significant) and to 1.36 (expanded sites; significant).

The CD4 + CD45RO + CCR7 + CD27 − cell population also showed a trend to increase following simplification in the participants with suppressed viremia during the study but did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.073).

[9] reported a marginally significant increase in breast cancer risk associated with the variant allele of XPG Asp1104His.

However, differences in the levels of lysoPCs in the two groups remain highly significant.

In such species, the wintering area of strict migratory populations overlaps with the breeding ranges of partially migratory populations, which may include a more or less significant proportion of year round residents.

In addition BNP>100 pg/ml showed a borderline significant value of 0.077 as an independent predictor of overall death (HR 1.47, CI0.96–2.24).

In this analysis, one of the SNPs (rs789859) showed significant association after Bonferroni correction, and four (rs10873824, rs4144887, rs12130910 rs2809115) were nominally significant (lowest p-value 3.278 × 10 −4 ).

Further, to eliminate the false positives Bonferroni correction was used and as a result, a total of 312 highly significant MTAs were identified for 25 agronomically important traits ( Table 1 ).

We included scores from this test in the analysis because RTLR and CONT groups showed a marginally significant difference.

All these models yielded the same highly significant associated SNP as the final model.

While the A2 climate change scenario shows an overall trend of higher flows, its flow duration curve drops sharply below the baseline at 90% exceedance, suggesting that under this scenario of climate change much lower flows will be experienced during drought periods.

The full models of both analyses (model 7) show that the effect of ethnic minority density on the outcome variables, as well as the interaction term of ethnic minority density and non-Western ethnicity, remains stable and highly significant.

The only other relevant variable in the model that showed a significant trend was western style fast food consumption in 2005 (p 0.007).

Spearman's rank correlation coefficients (ρ) of TV+, TV and CETV showed highly significant correlations between automatic and manual segmentations.

Conversely, production of CCL2 was significantly augmented in the COPD subjects, and CCL3 showed a trend towards increased production, which did not attain statistical significance ( Fig. 1B, 1C ) .

When strictly applying the Bonferroni correction needed to adjust for the multiplicity of 10 parallel cytokine measurements, the difference in IFN-γ levels did not quite reach statistical significance.

Our current data are consistent with these outcomes, in that WP1066 shows a strong trend to inhibit Reg1 in gastric tumours of the gp130 757FF mouse along with IL-6 and IL-11 inhibition.

However, after indexation to BSA, this difference disappeared in our as well other studies [29] , although one study showed a trend toward higher LVDD/BSA values in women compared with men [28] .

The association between ‘number of paired teeth’ and height showed a positive trend across quintiles in males, whereas no relationship was evident in females ( Figure 1a and 1b respectively).

Water column TDOC was closely correlated with water column TDN (r = 0.92, p < 2.2e-16; Figure 2 ), while water column TDP exhibited a much weaker relationship with TDOC (r = 0.27, p = 8.0e-11; Figure 2 ).TDOC did not exhibit a strong trend across the season ( Figure S2 ).

Highly significant increases (over 1000-fold) in IL-8 and IL-6 transcripts and significant increases in TNF (2-fold) in HD patient post-mortem striatal tissue have been reported in independent studies [10] .

Table S4 Permutation analysis of the association matrix shown in Table S2 to find out if species with shared family and fruit types show more or less significant associations than expected by random distribution of significant cases over all pairs of species. n t : total number of significant associations of specified type; m t : total number of pairs with shared family or fruit type; n s : number of pairs with shared family or fruit type which show a significant association; n s exp : expectation of n s under 10,000 randomization of significant cases over all pairs of species.

Importantly, because several previous reports suggest that there may be significant gender differences in the natural history of COPD [8] – [10] and some experimental observations show that the leukocyte transcriptional response to other acute stressors (infection) is different in males and females [11] , we recruited participants stratified by sex.

6 ) and this value was approaching significance.

NFΚB (p50/p105) in the lungs of BL treated septic mice showed only a decreasing trend.