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A similar excess of intermediate frequency variants was observed in non-African populations, which tend to have positive Tajima's D values at the genome-wide level; yet, the Tajima's D value at NAT2 is unusual in the European and Asian samples (though only marginally significant in the latter) when compared to neutral expectations for two different bottleneck models.

Early training (first 3 or 4 trials) on the finger tapping task led to a rapid and highly significant gain in speed (∼16% per trial); further practice led to a smaller, but still significant, gain (∼1% per trial).

However, it may be significant that in Tragopogon polyploids, all the imbalances in parental chromosome dosages between individuals occurred within a near-regular karyotype of 2 n = 24 (one exception at 2 n = 23).

Transfected cells were incubated, at low density, in the presence of hygromycin (600 μg/ml) and 2 individual clones with highly significant reduction of DNA-PKcs expression were obtained (further named DNA-PKcs KD in our study, KD standing for kinase dead).

Figure 3 shows additional changes in expression scores that were considered significant or highly significant.

Linkage disequilibrium measures are highly significant between SNPs rs1327328 and rs7326018 and SNP rs4284505, located next to a cluster of microRNAs, and marginally significant with SNP rs9583760, located within LOC121727 (similar to Peroxisome assembly protein 12 (Peroxin-12) (Peroxisome assembly factor 3) (PAF-3)).

As illustrated in Figure 8 , the sliding window analysis shows a large, highly significant eye position effect developing after the eye movement to target.

Contrastingly, baseline levels of oCRY1 showed a trend towards higher levels by co-transfection of oFbxl3sv, in-line with the predicted impaired coupling to the proteasome degradation pathway and suggestive of a dominant-negative effect.

Overall, there was a highly significant difference in parasite prevalence at the population level between L. neglectus and the two forms of L. turcicus ( Fig. 5 ; logistic regression with parasite and ant group as factors, χ 2 = 15.9, d.f. = 2, P <0.001).

In the non-significant maternally expressed imprinted genes, Ppp1r9a, Asb4 , Calcr and Ube3a have been reported as being imprinted in brain [38] – [41] , and they all have a marginally significant P -value.

Nine genes attained marginal significance only after pooling across all SNPs, but showed no single SNP with a significantly skewed frequency.

The top panel of figure 3 shows highly significant, negative correlations between the BOLD response and the behavioural data in our regions of interest (ROI), i.e., BA44 bilaterally and l-IPL, in the second level analysis.

[2] , [7] In the study by Frank et al [2] gender was marginally significant only for harassment by preclinical professors (males vs females, 11% vs 7%) but not for harassment by all other groups.

Second, highly significant positive correlations between RT and activation were found predominantly in frontal regions, though several regions in parietal cortex and the thalamus also showed a positive correlation (p<.05).

The larvae infected with a mixture of dead color mutant conidia and live wild-type conidia showed a trend with increased mortality rates compared to those infected with a mixture of dead and live spores of only wild-type strains ( Figure 10C ).

These Neu5Gc-incorporation phenomena are practically significant, because normal humans can have high levels of circulating anti-Neu5Gc antibodies.

A positive trend of sensitivity with increasing CD4 cell count was observed for HIV-positive patients when stratifying CD4 cell counts into groups of <100, 100–200, 200–300, 300–400, 400–500, >500 (p = 0.03).

Similar to the findings of Raby et al [16] , we have demonstrated a clear trend of decreasing sensitivity with decreasing CD4 cell count in HIV-positive patients.

The statistical results derived from a total of 71 different patient samples, demonstrated a highly significant association between ZEB1 protein induction and a diagnosis of an acute ischemic episode ( Figure 8B ).

A similar and highly significant reduction in Tensin3 mRNA expression was also observed ( Figure 2C ).

I found a weak trend showing that the power to predict the known NRI increased and the power to predict the known NTI decreased as the number of taxa in the assemblage increased ( Fig.

The only exception was D2Mit395 (LOD 2.7), which showed borderline significance when analysed using MapManager, but with Cartographer the marker fell just below the significance threshold of LOD 2.8.

Linear regression analyses showed highly significant associations between perceived step height and maximum toe elevation for all conditions.

No effect or interaction approached significance (all p s>0.2).

First, the sample size was relatively small which might explain the marginal significance level of the effect of unpaid assistance and emotional support on MD.