The lowest-quality 10% of the data, as defined using the size of error bars on the data, was removed to improve interpretation quality; only the remaining 90% higher-quality data were stacked.
The general principles of the Declaration of Helsinki were followed, identifying information in the data was removed to ensure anonymity, and informed consent was given by the participants.
The first 3 volumes from each resting data set and first 6 volumes from each task data set were removed to allow longitudinal magnetization to reach steady state.
These data points were removed to decrease biases in the trend analyses.
In view of the fact that a proportion of edges showed inconsistent patterns with the model data, these were removed to yield "pruned" correlation networks.
Before analyzing the data, all personal qualifiers were removed to ensure participant anonymity.
Meridian data were removed prior to binning.
These data were removed prior to analysis.
Three level II hospitals with multiple periods of missing longitudinal data were removed prior to analysis.
The Poisson correction model was used, and all of the positions containing gaps or missing data were removed prior to analysis, which resulted in a 698915-amino-acid-long alignment.
