Hence, missing data were excluded on a case-by-case basis.
Seven of these cases have been already excluded, on a purely clinical basis, because a mutation was found in a different gene or because of a negative mutation screening.
Of these, 2663 cases were excluded on the basis that they were a death certificate only registration.
Cases with missing observations were excluding from the model on a case by case basis.
To limit this report to a description of CDC's institutional experience, rather than a broader review of publications on anthrax investigations, we excluded (a) anthrax case reports published in the MMWR but unrelated to a CDC field investigation and (b) published reports on anthrax by investigators not affiliated with CDC.
No cases were excluded on this basis.
We would be grateful to know how many cases were excluded on this basis.
While many PMBL cases would be excluded on the basis of diagnosis from conventional DLBCL gene expression data sets, it was possible that some PMBL cases might contribute to the COO-unclassified DLBCL cases, in particular those lacking a polarized immune response signature.
In all the cases, diabetes was also excluded on the basis of laboratory data.
In 24 cases, all males were excluded on at least two loci, with the exception of the assigned sire, who matched the offspring mother pair at all loci.
Patients with suspected primary lung cancer (including mesothelioma) or distant metastatic disease from other types of cancer (excluding haematological malignancies), 9.077 cases in all, were excluded, on the basis that it is highly unlikely that detection of unrequested imaging findings will alter clinical decision making in patients with such a poor prognosis.
