It was sometimes galling to be as excluded as we felt we were.
Second, we have reviewed academic/professional journals articles only; conference proceedings and dissertation were excluded, as we assumed that high quality research eventually published in academic/professional journals.
Other texts like book chapters, minutes of conferences, and research reports were excluded as we could not ensure that they met the established criteria. .
Other texts like book chapters, minutes of conferences, and research reports were excluded as we could not ensure that they met the established criteria.
Studies which reported newer analysis techniques of HRV (e.g. entropy analysis) were excluded, as we focussed on those reporting measures in line with recent European guidance [17].
SNPs with MAF as low as 1% in HapMap were not excluded as we attempted to fine map the casual variant affecting the disease, which could be quite rare in the general population.
Where a matrix used estimated rather than raw counts, as indicated by the occurrence of a decimal point in the 'frequency' matrix, that matrix was excluded (as we have assumed that raw counts will be used).
However, the possibility for a direct interaction between MRH2 and AF can not be excluded, as we have shown the in vitro interaction between MRH2649-1051 and the polymerized actin (Figure 8).
We were not able to place two of the individuals in the pedigree due to lack of DNA samples from one breeding territory (territory Xa3 in Liberg et al. [12]) and these were therefore excluded as we did not have accurate estimates of their inbreeding coefficients.
It is, however, important to note here that this calculation is based on a situation where we assume that 100% of the hemolymph fluid is ejected and there are no regurgitation, the possibilities that cannot be excluded as we have not been able to directly measure the dynamics of the fluid.
Reviews were excluded as we wanted to develop a search strategy for original studies.
