Strachan reiterated his previous suggestion that it is a fixture, formerly played on an annual basis, that has been missed from the calendar.
Genes could have been missed from previous analyses of minicircular sequences, especially if the genes were short or poorly conserved.
Previous studies have shown that epidemiological models may over-estimate mortality due to HIV/AIDS, although some deaths may have been missed from this study due to out-migration.
In addition, some patients treated with letrozole before the introduction of an electronic database at our institution in 2005 may have been missed from inclusion in the study and there was inconsistency in follow-up between the patients.
Although we cannot demonstrate unambiguously that the missing segments of centromeric DNA are constituted by tandem repeats, it would be unusual if extensive segments of non-repetitive sequences had been missed from the corresponding regions of each chromosome during the genome project.
The medical records of incident cases of HCV were reviewed by DG and TR to determine the reasons for the HCV test and also to carefully ascertain if there was any record of IDU that may have been missed from routinely collected risk factors.
