Genes not included in both datasets were excluded from the analysis.
Since some countries' CES-D scores were not available in the two datasets, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania were excluded in the 2006 spuriousness test.
For the evolutionary comparison of HK genes, TiGER genes, and SPD genes, the common genes with HI genes were excluded in all paired datasets respectively.
Note that not all 155 samples contributed evaluable data: based on pre-specified filtering criteria, 5 CMV responses, 5 CEF responses and 5 HIV A Gag responses were excluded in the IAVI dataset; 15 CMV responses, 14 CEF responses and 14 Gag responses were excluded in the HVTN dataset.
Comparing the items where pictograms were excluded in the present dataset, with those in the N.ref sample, there were no systematic differences.
There were 112 pregnancies without an MNS record and these were excluded in the initial validation of the datasets.
Genes that had missing values in more than 1/3 of the samples of a given dataset were excluded from the analysis in order to avoid data over-imputation [ 100].
The four bulls present in the dataset were excluded from subsequent analyses since they all ranged from 7 to 9 for degree of black and because color descriptions of bulls have shown that they can be darker than steers [ 6], which may create bias.
Whereas, seven genes coding for two TIPs (HbTIP1 4 and HbTIP5 2), one NIP (HbNIP7 1), four XIPs (HbXIP1 1, HbXIP1 3, HbXIP1 4 and HbXIP3 1) might be expressed exclusively in response to a specific stimulus or in a very specific part of the plant and thus are excluded in the available datasets.
Contributors that were not active before the last month in the dataset are excluded due to the small amount of information available about their behavior.
