Index patients were included once for every relation investigated, and could thus occur more than once in the analyses.
This means that for each matrix 10 concatenation paths were conducted sequentially 5 genes added, in which no gene is included more than once, and ending with the total concatenation of all genes.
Each concatenation path consists of a chain of sequentially added gene partitions in which no gene is included more than once (fig. 1 A ). Every path ends with a total concatenation of all of the genes in the data set, which we refer to as the TE data set.
Patients could be included more than once provided that more than 30 days had elapsed between two episodes of neutropenia.
Women could have been included more than once in the analysis if more than one pregnancy had been recorded during the follow-up time and each pregnancy was allocated to the appropriate exposure group.
Some jurisdictions, for example, Yuba County, California, are included more than once because they have been determined on more than one occasion to be covered under section 4(b).
One could raise concern about this evaluation because there are patients who underwent more then one EBL procedure and were included more than once in data analysis.
A further limitation of this study was the inability to trace repeat blood donors and thus it is possible that some individuals may have been included more than once, resulting in either over or under estimation of the association, particularly in three or more time donors.
If there was a chance that the same patients (patients who were reported in 2 or more studies and treated by the same surgeon over a similar operation period) had been included more than once in the present study, only the patients in the study with a larger cohort were included for data extraction and statistical analysis in order to minimize any potential for sampling bias.
No participants were included more than once.
Therefore, a peak cannot be included more than once in one tuple, but several times in several different tuples.
