Although the populations sampled are not the same (Malawi vs. Zimbabwe for African populations; North Carolina vs. The Netherlands for non-African populations), we would still expect broadly similar patterns of nucleotide diversity across the two studies.
We have only considered educational attainment as a measure of SES, but we would expect broadly similar results should another measure have been used, based on our past experience with contrasting measures of SES in Asian and Western populations.
Furthermore, although recruitment was limited to Nottingham the observed demographic profile of smokers within the cohort is, given the composition of other cohorts, as expected and broadly representative of pregnant smokers generally.
The BMA and Royal College of General Practitioners are expected to broadly welcome the planned changes.
"Senator Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat leading the inquiry, is expected to broadly question the quality and independence of consulting firms that are paid billions of dollars by the same banks they are expected to police".
Much of the debate is taking place under a pending deadline of the United NationsGeneral Assembly meeting scheduled in September, when the Assembly is expected to broadly endorse Palestinian statehood in a vote that could prove deeply embarrassing to Israel and the United States, which are both expected to vote against it.
Widely viewed as only modestly more conservative than current Chair Janet Yellen, Powell is expected to broadly maintain the monetary and regulatory policies the Fed has pursued since the financial crisis of 2008.
Given overlapping pathological substrates for ischemic heart disease and ischemic stroke, as well as a common set of acquired risk factors and treatment strategies [9], we expected a broadly similar set, and relative strength, of genetic associations.
Such physiomimetic mechanism modules (PMMs) are expected to broadly improve model usefulness without requiring significant refactoring of implementations.
