The pre-specified possible sources of inter-study heterogeneity were: cancer type, ethnicity of population (Caucasian, East Asian, South Asian, African or Mixed population), study design (hospital-based case-control study, population-based case-control study or nested case-control study), sample size (≥500 or <500) and HWE violation (violated or not violated).
We excluded 19 citations due to the following reasons: not a study (n = 8), multiple reasons for exclusion (i.e. more than one inclusion criteria not met; n = 2), irrelevant study design (n = 4), mixed population and separate outcome data not available (n = 4), and irrelevant intervention (n = 1).
Initially, this predictor was designed to be a general prognostic tool, developed in a mixed population of patients receiving chemotherapy and tamoxifen.
This study was designed to determine in vitro rates of biohydrogenation of dietary unsaturated fatty acids by a mixed population of rumen microbes.
I've never seen such a mixed population".
While the MDAP platform is similar in design to SBE assays, its improved sensitivity and specificity allow for accurate quantitation of low frequency polymorphisms within a mixed population.
Is it a genetically mixed population?
A mixed population of OA patients was enrolled, including different sites and use of a per-protocol population rather than an intention-to-treat (ITT) design, could have introduced significant biases and gives a less conservative estimate of treatment effect.
The basal/myoepithelial cell population is also a mixed population.
This study was designed to test the hypothesis that intravenous magnesium administration reduces the incidence of delirium occurrence by causing less sedative consumption in a mixed population of ICU patients.
