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However, since many investigations were performed in the developing brain of rodents, there may be significant variation in parameter values when considering the human brain due to both interspecies differences and variability between developing and adult brain tissues.

Similar to the global brain parameters, the cortical thickness of the frontal cluster displayed a significant trend between the subgroups (from AGA to SGA+ to SGA−, Figure 3 ), with SGA− children having the thickest cortex.

The markers developed within the Zmfatb sequence, LD42 and LD64, have the most highly significant association with the measured phenotypes ( Figures 2A and 2B ), which gives additional evidence that Zmfatb is the right candidate gene for QTL- Pal9 .

There was a highly significant increase in tumor growth rate in the group receiving cycling hypoxia treatment compared to the control group ( Fig. 6A ).

For low altitude areas an increasing trend is displayed up to 1996 but this is based on very few data points.

For the deseasonalized data there is a significant trend in both periods.

We find no significant trend in the 1979-1995 period but a highly significant trend in the full 1979-2009 sample.

When the initial and replication samples were combined, a clear trend of elevated ORs with increased number of risk alleles was observed and the joint effect was independent of the aforementioned non-genetic risk factors (Combined P trend = 1.2×10 −6 ).

More specifically, we found up to a 40% reduction in the microbial biomass from all the manure samples (2408±175.7 μg g −1 dw) to earthworm casts (1295±98.3 μg g −1 dw) ( Table 1 ); although the interaction between the type of manure and earthworm treatment was close to being significant ( Table 2 ).

An observed trend in the evolution of ohnologs is their observed rapid sequence evolution compared to singletons [38] , [39] , [40] .

As shown in Figure 3A , prior to infection or challenge highly significant levels of IL-2 were produced upon stimulation with QE65 compared to medium alone.

Production of the regulatory cytokine IL-10 in response to QE65 was significantly increased after gluten challenge, however a small trend for increased levels after challenge, prior to infection, was also seen ( Figure 3G ).

Stratification by WA status was associated with a significant effect only for cecal levels of Firmicutes, though this effect was highly significant [AUT(+WA) vs.

Interestingly, whereas the entire set of genes up-regulated in the mouse tumors did not have a predictive power (see above, Table 1 and Table S4 ), the subset of genes that were up-regulated in both mouse and human tumors showed marginally significant predictive power ( Table 2 , Table S7 ).

We found that the genes down-regulated both in mouse and human tumors ( Table S6 ) retained a highly significant predictive power for survival and enrichment for metabolic processes.

The array additionally suggested that there may be significant gene transcriptional changes relating to lipid metabolism underlying the altered lipid content in the GFP-HSCs.

gracilis , whereas this decrease was only marginally significant for N. ampullaria and N. bicalcarata (Wilcoxon signed-rank test, Figure 1a ).

There was a significant season and food effect for both protein and carbohydrate collection, and for protein there was a marginally significant season-by-food interaction ( Table 1 ).

This analysis revealed a marginally significant difference between seasons, but a highly significant effect of food pairing on protein and carbohydrate consumption ( Figs. 4A and 4B ; Table 2 ).

Given this highly significant LSP-NCOGC non-parity polymorphism association, we considered the hypothesis that biased intra-LSP recombination, which might arise from biased intra-LSP DSB formation, was responsible for the observed cases of non-parity NCOGC in linked SNPs.

Specifically, while a decreasing trend in MCR was observed using fewer components, similar to the PLS-LDA method, the MCR was consistently higher than the PLS-LDA approach using the first seven components ( Figure 1 A–D ).

In contrast, average recent trend was near stable, and even slightly increasing (stable = 2, overall average recent trend = 1.81), perhaps reflecting an encouraging trend of recent conservation successes for some RMUs (e.g.

If, therefore, a signal is relearnt before it has been entirely forgotten, it is conceivable that “savings” [10] will be manifested; in particular, this effect may be expected to be quite significant where forgetting is slow, i.e. where and are well separated.

Association with error rate Although 677T carriers made more errors, and showed a trend towards decreased post-error slowing, these effects did not reach significance ( Table 1 ).

For women a positive trend was found between low per-capita consumption and HIV acquisition.