The phrase "artefact of selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions related to evolutionary biology, psychology, or any field that examines the outcomes of selection processes.
Example: "The study revealed that the observed traits were merely an artefact of selection rather than a result of genetic variation."
Alternatives: "product of selection" or "result of selection".
13 14 However, this phenomenon could also be an artefact of selection due to the unobserved characteristics of the individuals: selective effects of earlier higher mortality, experienced by the disadvantaged group, would leave more robust individuals at old ages, causing the convergence with the risk of the lower mortality group that is subject to weaker selection.
Alternatively, the occurrence of pleiotropic or linked loci may also be an artefact of selection during and since hop domestication.
That the vast majority of the sample enjoyed the questionnaire and were not upset by it may be an artefact of this selection bias.
One assumption of this work is that the measured effects are indeed ErbB2-dependent and not an artefact of clonal selection and variation.
An alternative explanation for the high ratio value of the dORF sequences is that it is an artefact of the selection procedures used, namely that of choosing ORFs conserved at a peptide level.
The difference between the red line and the grey area at the second peak in Fig. 3a suggested that the observation of increased reporting of reassortment in the clade of recently reintroduced human H1 was not an artefact of the selection of the SSRS (Fig. 3a and c).
To exclude the possibility that these findings were an artefact of clonal selection or adaptation to the xeno-environment resulting from passage through the mice, we also assayed primary blasts sorted for CD20 or CD34 expression and transplanted at low cell dose.
Given the weak correlation between changes in mRNA abundance in the two species, we tested the possibility that the differences in gene-identities result from differences in statistical significance and thus represent artefacts of threshold selection.
The fact that cases are less likely than controls to have had a blood transfusion is probably an artefact of the control selection.
A criticism of the previous study by Wilk and colleagues [ 9] was that CD3+CD20+ cells may be an artefact of T-cell selection and may actually represent T-cell/B-cell doublets [ 10].
The differences between the control data presented here and the comparative dataset reported by Kita and Özyürek (2003) may instead have been an artefact of the participant selection process.
