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The headache duration of more than 4 weeks was excluded to minimize recall bias for the presence of preceding illness.

For the remaining MDs, a pairwise correlation analysis was carried out (one of any two indices with r ≥ 0.90 was excluded to minimize redundant information).

In construction of the final consensus mask, the voxels with GM tissue probabilities lower than a threshold value of 0.2 were excluded to minimize potential edge effects between different tissue types.

Trains of electrical stimulation composed of three pulses (each 0.5 ms in duration) with a 5 ms interpulse interval were applied to further increase nociceptive specificity [12], and stimulation intensities > 2 mA were excluded to minimize the risk of Aβ fiber co-activation [10].

The two frontoparietal and basal temporal electrodes (Fp1, Fp2, A1, and A2) were excluded to minimize artifacts due to eye movements.

Markers with extreme levels of polymorphism were also excluded to minimize possible selection of duplicated loci.

Moreover, patients with an ethnic origin in the Eastern Mediterranean basin, the Netherlands, Belgium or France were excluded to further minimize the risk of including patients with hereditary FMF or MKD.

We also repeated the analyses after excluding diabetics to minimize confounding by reverse causation (i.e., diabetes leading to sarcopenia and/or obesity).

In addition, studies with questionable DM ascertainment were excluded in order to minimize misclassification of patients.

Data from the first two day shifts were excluded in order to minimize practice effects on the tasks (analyses of the slope of the RT x set size function and accuracy in visual search indicated an improvement over the first two day shifts, but not from day 3 to day 4).

Adenine was excluded in order to minimize the frequency of stop codons.