Sentence examples for burden tests from inspiring English sources
Rare variants were screened with single-variant and burden tests.
We compare various gene- or region-based association tests, including burden tests, variance-component tests, and combined omnibus tests, in terms of their assumptions and performance.
Here, we leverage large-scale exome-sequencing data to create an empirically based simulation framework to evaluate the impact of key parameters (background variation rates, locus heterogeneity, mode of inheritance, penetrance) on power in gene-based burden tests in the context of monogenic disorders.
Each experiment (burden tests) was conducted at least twice, and the Student t test was used to determine significant differences (P<0.05) between the maximum growth rates of GFP-labeled and parental strains.
Therefore, no burden tests were performed.
Also, correlations between windows are demonstrably more evident for SKAT tests than for burden tests.
Will the Court's conservatives — who appear to have, with the addition of Anthony Kennedy, a one-vote majority on this issue — define the "undue burden" test into meaninglessness?
"Applying the substantial burden test requires courts to distinguish important from unimportant religious beliefs, a task for which we have already explained courts are particularly ill-suited," Sotomayor wrote, before applying the test anyhow.
In my dissent in Casey, I wrote that the "undue burden" test made law by the joint opinion created a standard that was "as doubtful in application as it is unprincipled in origin," "hopelessly unworkable in practice," "ultimately standardless".
I have joined Justice Thomas's dissent because I agree that today's decision is an "unprecedented expansion" of our prior cases, "is not mandated" by Casey's "undue burden" test, and can even be called (though this pushes me to the limit of my belief) "obviously irreconcilable with Casey's explication of what its undue-burden standard requires".
"Because the undue burden test requires an assessment of the difficulty of obtaining abortion services, whether in a woman's own state or a neighboring state, and because neither the district court nor the majority has undertaken this assessment, I respectfully dissent," Garza wrote.
