“of borderline significance”

The analyses considered p -values <0.05 to be statistically significant and those between 0.06 and 0.10 to be of borderline significance.

When assessed under our default, multiplicative (co-dominant) inheritance model, these differences were of borderline significance for PGR and not significant for ESR1 ( Table S6 ).

A standalone study, in 2024, undertook an investigation into the asymmetry associated with the acetabulum using acetabular articular cartilage surface areas for the assessment of acetabular fractures, and reported a difference of borderline significance [ 32 ].

While more participants reported not being depressed in the HIV self-testing direct provision arm compared to the standard-of-care arm at 4 months (PP 10.3, 95% CI − 0.1 to 20.7, p = 0.05), this was only of borderline significance.

In addition, two new mitotic interactions were found in our analysis: Rev7 showed interaction with Rad54 and with Rad57 ( Table 1 and Figure 4A ; the Rev7 - Rad54 interaction, however, was only of borderline significance in our statistical analysis).

Continuous CITED2 mRNA levels were of borderline significance for PFS.

In terms of family impact, children with CP had higher mean scores than the normal preschool children who were of borderline significance.

The multifactorial diet also induces a greater decrease in HDL cholesterol, compared to the MUFA diet, but this effect is of borderline significance, particularly after 8 weeks of the intervention.

Having a chronic illness (OR 3.4 (95% CI 1.2–10.2)), being in years 4 or 5 (OR 3.0 (95% CI 1.3–7.1)) and having accurate knowledge on the H1N1 pandemic (OR 2.6 (95% CI 1.1–6.0)) were positive predictors of vaccine uptake although they were of borderline significance.

The differences between responders and non-responders for the three components of breast cancer awareness were inconsistent and of borderline significance.

In our study, disease status at transplant was only of borderline significance for OS and RFS.

However, the data analysis also showed that the complexity of infection in both sites increased with children age; this was significant in rural and of borderline significance in urban area.

All genotype frequencies follow the Mendel’s laws prediction; however, a survival reduction of borderline significance is observed for the double homozygous line (-aabb) (Supplementary Table 1 ).

The improvement in HOMA-IR was of borderline significance in this group.

The hit is statistically of borderline significance (E = 0.23) but there are additional arguments which consistently support this finding.

Blood lead was of borderline significance to cigarette smoking.

As, in our data, women were designated as pre- or postmenopausal relying only on their age, we have evaluated whether there is an interaction between age and growth pattern with respect to breast cancer risk, and the results were of borderline significance ( P ∼0.06).

In addition, there was a positive association of borderline significance between the prevalence of ever wheezing and maternal ΣDEHP metabolite concentrations in boys (aOR = 4.12; 95% CI: 0.87–19.61).

2.19±1.44, P=0.053) than those without, although the differences were only of borderline significance statistically.

In the case of machine learning, data and factors of borderline significance can be considered in the analysis without overlooking data that are not well known.

A recent study of Methotrexate as an adjunct to TAU had a statistically significant effect on PANSS Positive Subscale but no significant effect on negative subscale and overall, the difference in total PANSS score was of borderline significance ( Chaudhry et al., 2020 ).

There was a positive association between plasma 20:3n-6 percentages and anxiety scores in the present study that, to the best of our knowledge, has not been previously documented, and the connection between plasma 20:3n-6 and depression was of borderline significance.

( 9 )—increase of borderline significance.

From the perspective of the whole study duration, our investigation revealed an increase of borderline significance in the TG level in patients undergoing surgery within the analyzed period.

However, the survival difference was only of borderline significance in time-to-event analysis.