Specifically, of the bont/B plasmids identified for 32 C. botulinum strains, 24 were greater than 200 kb, and the remaining 8 ranged from approximately ∼55 kb to ∼170 kb: assuming that the C. botulinum chromosome is about 3.9 Mb [9], such plasmids would constitute a variable proportion (from 0.1% to 6%) of the genomes of the strains harboring them.
Each submission constituted a variable number of milk samples from one farm, and samples from the same farm could have been submitted more than once.
To obtain the effects of age, period and cohort on breast cancer incidence, models were fitted on the assumption that the number of cases constituted a variable with a Poisson distribution.
In this context, it is important to note that Vpx amino acid residues at the N terminus of α1 that contribute to SAMHD1 binding differ significantly between SIVsmm and SIVmnd-2 type Vpx proteins constituting a variable region (VR1).
The question "Please choose which option best describes your attitude as to whether you follow your physician's suggestions faithfully?" was used to constitute a variable of adherence to doctor's suggestions.
However, the categorization of patients with ROC as platinum-resistant or platinum-sensitive, with a PFI of < 6 months and≥ 6 months, respectively, did not adequately reflect the disease prognosis because PFI constitutes a continuous variable rather than a dichotomized variable at 6 months [7].
This genetic unit is termed RCCX module (RP-C4-CYP21-TNX) and constitutes a highly variable stretch of DNA of approximately 30 kb [22] (Figure 1).
When studying effects of ionizing radiation (IR) exposure in normal tissue, circadian variation constitutes an unknown variable if it is not controlled in the experimental design.
27 Measuring physical fitness as a health indicator similar to BMI and waist circumference constitutes an essential variable to be monitored in order to analyse and understand the secular trends and the evolution of risks for metabolic and cardiovascular disease.
Geography constitutes a major explanatory variable for global patterns of variation in human genomes (Rosenberg et al. 2002; Coop et al. 2009).
