Sentence examples for may reflect ascertainment from inspiring English sources

This finding, however, may reflect ascertainment bias, in that women with schizophrenia may, in general, use mental health services more frequently than their male counterparts [ 37].

This relationship was not, however, confirmed in the relationship with education where a significant increase in depression comorbidity was reported in those with 1 9 years of education, which, according to the authors, may reflect ascertainment bias.

We are not aware that Duroc is any more genetically diverse – one possible explanation is a technical one in that the chip itself was made from a Duroc pig and the results may reflect ascertainment bias.

For example, the initial descriptions of anti-AMPAR encephalitis as predominantly affecting women may be inaccurate; because autoimmune diseases tend to afflict more women than men, 29 this may reflect ascertainment bias; however, given the small sample size, it may also be coincidental.

While 13 mosaic events were found among 6810 children aged 0 4, a frequency of 0.19%, this may reflect ascertainment bias, as the youngest stratum of children in this study included children from a cohort study of oral clefts, a potential manifestation of pathogenic mosaicism.

However, this may reflect sample ascertainment as recent data suggest that CNVs contribute to the risk of early onset bipolar disorder (Jonathan Sebat, personal communication).

The exclusion of highly LD informative common variation in array-based panels may reflect the ascertainment of tagging SNPs which is not optimised for all populations.

This may reflect deteriorating ascertainment and documentation of deaths as the ART program expands, and an increase in undocumented transfers as ART services are decentralized [ 20– 20].

The observed attenuation in the effect of comorbidity on all-cause mortality with time may reflect under-ascertainment of comorbidities in our study since a strong association with comorbidity score and ten-year all-cause mortality has been previously reported [ 31].

Cases were reported from a greater number of departments in the DR than in Haiti (5 versus 3), but this may reflect poor case ascertainment in Haiti, rather than more localized spread of infection.

However, an increasing prevalence of diabetes does not necessarily implicate an increasing incidence, because the increasing prevalence may reflect better case ascertainment and prolonged survival of diabetic patients as suggested by the findings of Berger et al [ 20] and Stovring et al [ 21].