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These discrepancies may reflect sampling variations although their magnitude and pattern raises questions about additional mechanisms, which in turn may influence reproducibility.
The lower values may reflect sampling in a restricted period (November) when in-stream removal processes are particularly effective (Quinn and Stroud 2002).
Studies off the coast of North Africa and in the Gulf of Genoa have found males outnumbering females by 2 1 and 5 1 respectively; this imbalanced sex ratio has not been observed off South Africa and may reflect sampling bias.
This smaller number of outlier exons in the glioblastomas may be related to their homogeneous histopathology and their highly similar gene expression profiles [13], [21], to the presence of non-neoplastic cells in the tumor samples, or may reflect sampling biases due to small cohort sizes.
Mineralogic studies may reflect sampling heterogeneity.
However, differences in transcript abundance may reflect sampling errors rather than genuine differences in gene expression.
Some of the present findings may reflect sample effects in a single institution.
Discrepancies may reflect sample differences: Ursini et al.'s sample was all white and predominantly female, whereas ours was ethnically mixed and half female.
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).
High titers in subadults (Table 3) are likely to reflect the high proportion of recent infections in this age group, whereas low titers in juveniles may reflect samples taken in the very earliest stages of infection, when titers are still increasing.
This difference may reflect sample size or type with 55 out of 80 patients being ccRCC compared with our study which was completely ccRCC subtype and almost 50% having metastatic disease (some of whom had previously undergone nephrectomy) compared with 24% in our study.
