Subjects were assigned a categorization of affectation by self-report and medical record review when available.
The scale assigned for categorization of nominal and ordinal factors used in the regression analyses was: female sex (yes/no), current smoking (no/yes), tiredness (0/1/2/3) and back pain (0 to 3).
The scale assigned for categorization of ordinal factors used in the model as independent variables was no/yes for current cigarette smoking or quit cigarette smoking for less than six months ago, no/yes for completed university studies and no/yes for multiple births.
Functional classification – Clusters were assigned putative functional categorization using two methods.
Functional categorization assigned a large number of unigenes to involvement in intracellular cell components, membranes, organelles, metabolic processes, translation, transport, oxidation and reduction processes, enzyme activity, binding, structural molecule activity and catalytic activity.
GO categorization was assigned based on the high-quality annotation information available for Arabidopsis thaliana.
Gene expression underlying the haploid cell response to different growth conditions was examined by functional categorization of assigned genes using the March 2006 update of the Functional Catalogue (FUNCAT)[ 33] system from MIPS [ 32].
For additional categorization of colon or rectal cancers into localized, regional, distant, or unknown stages, we designed an algorithm, allowing certain missing stage components, under the assumption that the remaining information was sufficient to provide a meaningful categorization (eg, cancers assigned T4, Nx, M1 in the DCR were categorized as "distant"; see Appendix 1).
These slides were evaluated and a B-categorization was assigned.
In the current study, we adopted GO annotation with the limitations including that the categorizations are assigned based on current knowledge but many change as new scientific discoveries are made, and that categories are sometimes subsets of one another.
Dogs were assigned to these four hypoallergenic categorization groupings based on popular report by breed.
