Our results could appear surprising since even if staphylococci are involved in 43.4 % of patients, they are less frequent causative organisms than streptococci involved in 45.6 % of patients.
Less common causative variants include splice-site alterations, variants in the carboxyl-terminal propeptide coding-domains or insertion/deletion events that lead to in-frame sequence alterations.
Viral spread (34 NO) and fungi (10 NO) were less often the causative agents.
Fungi are less commonly identified as causative agents than bacteria, with Aspergillus ranking first, followed by Candida, Fusarium, Alternaria, and Scedosporium which were identified in only few cases [1 5].
We did not detect significant differences in the timing or amplitude of gene expression induction or upregulation of proliferation in epicardial cells in response to the two types of injury, indicating that intrinsic differences in the epicardial response are less likely to be causative for the observed difference in wound coverage.
Emericella spp. other than E. nidulans are less frequently reported as causative agents of infectious disease.
This resembles the animal studies where the addition of serum to the culture medium affects the growth of the fetus (Khosla et al., 2001; Young et al., 2001; Fernandez-Gonzalez et al., 2004), although the effect in the human (not involving serum) seems less severe and a causative epigenetic variable has not been found yet.
Given the successful identification of causative genes for less complex traits, we applied ISA to eight quantitative traits showing a continuous distribution among the segregants.
Once BMI is greater than 35, the other causative factors have less of a contribution toward the probability of developing EL, but may contribute to the grade of EL severity.
However, since we tend to choose common markers for SNP genotyping experiments, the causative SNP will less likely be included in real data as long as selection is based on the minor allele frequency.
