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We examined the correlation between change in SUV by FDG PET and tissue assay of Ki-67 by testing associations between baseline, 2-week absolute values, and percentage change.

In the present investigation, our aim was to extend that prior finding by testing associations between psychiatric sickness absence and specific causes of death.

Several studies have tried to identify windows of sensitivity to air pollutants during pregnancy, by testing associations between trimester-specific exposure variables and birth weight, without yielding a consistent picture (reviewed by Slama et al. 2008a).

Much more evidence is needed on the developmental interface of HPA axis functioning and depression by testing associations between repeated measures of depression symptoms and HPA axis reactivity throughout adolescence.

This pilot study focused on this question by testing associations between behavior problems, foster home integration, an evidence-based foster parent intervention, and adoption likelihood.

By assessing background pollutant exposure levels three months before and during each trimester of pregnancy and then by testing associations between corresponding exposure variables and lymphocyte immunophenotype distributions in cord blood, our study contributes to identify windows of exposure to air pollutants before and during pregnancy.

We tested associations between phthalate monoesters by Spearman correlations.

We used a longitudinal dataset on wild Galapagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki) to develop a relatively new perspective on this problem, by testing for associations between heterozygosity and immune variation across age classes and between ecological contexts.

By testing for associations between time-course gene expression and the top two PCs, we avoid this challenging problem and consider instead the tractable association significance testing problem with a simple null hypothesis H 0 : γ i = 0 versus H 1 : γ i ≠ 0 (as opposed to a composite null).

The relationship between diabetes-related metabolic measures and PA was assessed by testing trend association between the metabolic measures and levels of PA in categories (low, moderate, and high) using generalized estimating equations to account for correlations among related individuals within families.

We mapped QTL by testing the association between phenotype (growth or virulence) and the genotypes of SNPs located throughout the genome.