Sentence examples for analyses were retrieved from from inspiring English sources

All data used in our analyses were retrieved from the Gene Expression Omnibus [14].

All other sequences used in the analyses were retrieved from the NCBI nr protein sequence database.

Software for phylogenetic and sequence analyses were retrieved from the corresponding references listed in the different sections of Methods.

The sequences of the mammalian TLRs used in the analyses were retrieved from GenBank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) and Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org/index.html).html

All the reference sequences for phylogenetic analyses were retrieved from GenBank and their corresponding accession number are listed in Additional file 1: Table S1.

We find it unlikely that the estimated effect of mode of delivery on asthma is different in the cohort and sibling analyses, as each delivery is individually assessed and observations in both analyses were retrieved from the same study population.

The GWAS dataset for pathway analyses: data used for pathway analyses was retrieved from Meder et al. [ 49] Stage 1 (screening phase) of this GWAS on DCM consisted of 909 individuals of European descent with DCM recruited between 2005 to 2008 and 2,120 controls from the PopGen and KORA population-based cohorts.

Phylogenetic Analyses Sequence data were retrieved from the JGI genome portal webserver, NCBI and ENSEMBL.

Biological information, i.e. total length, age, sex and maturity status, for all individuals used in the genetic analyses was retrieved directly from the MRI database.

Previously published sequences used for phylogenetic analyses in this study were retrieved from GeneBank and are identified by their respective accession numbers.

Third, the data analysed in this study were retrieved from the nation-wide KBCR.