For some New Yorkers, a shoe sale is an incidental thing, a chance to pick up a pair of loafers, or absent-mindedly rummage through racks of heels.
The most common problems resulting from the presence of many variables are spurious correlations (many unrelated variables are correlated by chance), and incidental endogeneity (explanatory variables are correlated with the residual errors) (Fan et al. 2014).
22 At the very least clinicians should counsel patients about the chance of incidental findings before requesting brain MRI.
The application of gene panels also poses fewer ethical issues, as it substantially reduces the chance of incidental findings.
As the frequency of infected birds increases in local populations, the chances of incidental hosts, such as humans, being bitten and infected by a mosquito carrying WNV also increases [4].
The detected variants are analyzed using an in-house, validated software package, focusing first on specific candidate genes nominated by the referring clinicians to limit the chances of incidental, potentially unrelated findings.
For instance, genomic approaches increase the chance of discovering incidental findings or results with uncertain clinical significance.
However, there was still a significant number of patients, roughly half (48%%) who said that they would have liked to have had been told about the chance of an incidental finding.
Knowing the chance of discovering incidental brain findings would help clinicians inform patients of these risks, help researchers adequately inform healthy volunteers in imaging research, and adequately inform people who seek screening by brain MRI.
Because of the limited phenotypes associated with complete loss or duplication of the entire Y chromosome, the chance of actionable incidental findings from Y studies is low, but some of the variants discovered have potential implications for spermatogenesis.
