Sentence examples for epidemiological traits from inspiring English sources
Urothelial carcinomas of the upper and the lower urothelial tract share many clinical and epidemiological traits.
Distributions of the same shape for different epidemiological traits often resulted in different predictions for disease risk and severity.
SNP rs2229765 results in a silent mutation, and has thus far not been found associated with any epidemiological traits.
In genetic terms, this corresponds to a limited number of genetic loci controlling the epidemiological traits of interest.
Our results, however, indicate that variation in different epidemiological traits, such as infectiousness or duration of immunity, can influence very differently both disease risk and severity.
For each of these epidemiological traits, distributions with a variety of shapes were generated by choosing α = 0.25, 1.25, 2.5, and 12.5.
For assessing the role of different genetic architectures underlying a particular epidemiological trait, outputs corresponding to distributions of different shapes for the particular epidemiological trait in question were compared (i.e., different α and the same mean value αθ).
The results in Table 2 also illustrate that variation in a particular epidemiological trait may affect various infection characteristics simultaneously.
Also, our results suggest that understanding the source of genetic variation, i.e., identifying the epidemiological trait(s) for which variation occurs, is important when making predictions for epidemiological outcomes and interpreting epidemiological data.
For this purpose, distributions for each epidemiological trait for which variation was assumed were generated with the same trait mean as that of the benchmark model for homogeneous populations (Table 1).
Values for the host-specific epidemiological trait in question were drawn from a two-parameter continuous gamma distribution with shape parameter α and scale parameter θ [ i.e., probability density function is x α − 1 (exp (− x / θ ) / Γ ].
