Sentence examples for ascertained as previously from inspiring English sources

The presence of BRCA1 mutations was ascertained as previously reported [16], whereas sporadic cases were selected based on negative family history of cancer and age of onset >40 years.

W-H grade 0 or minimal encephalopathy was ascertained as previously described [ 28].

W-H grade 0 encephalopathy was ascertained as previously described [ 23].

Probands (median age 31.4; range 17.6 56.3) were ascertained as previously described (8), many through psychiatric sources or referrals, ensuring a high rate of schizophrenia.

Nineteen Finnish three-generation families (130 subjects; Table  1), of Caucasian origin and whose phenotypes were ascertained as previously described (Nopola-Hemmi et al. 2001), were genotyped (Kaminen et al. 2003; Anthoni et al. 2007).

The second group included 43 patients with type 2 diabetes diagnosed at age ≥35 years for whom no insulin therapy was used for at least 2 years after diagnosis, ascertained as previously described (13).

With informed consent, the characteristic information of all study subjects, including sex, age, ethnicity, HBsAg and anti-HCV, were ascertained as described previously [ 7], at the same time 4 ml of peripheral blood was also collected.

Purified neutrophils were resuspended at a concentration of 5 × 10/mL in chemotaxis assay buffer (RPMI 1640, 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum, 100 U/mL penicillin, and 100 μg/mL streptomycin), and their chemotactic behavior was ascertained, as described previously.

The incubation period from defined inoculating events to onset of melioidosis was previously ascertained as 1 21 days [13] but the latent period has been documented to be as long as 62 years after exposure [14].

The exact number of the blast victims cannot be ascertained as yet".

Descriptive statistics were ascertained as appropriate.