Charts on topics like "Number of McDonald's Restaurants" in a given country or "Overweight Population/Obese Population" are useful, but not as convincing as the portrait of the four members of the Casales family of Mexico posed in front of the six gallons of Coke they drink weekly.
In addition to being a source of potential novel variation, the Global MAGIC population provides useful materials for studying the relative contributions from the two rice ecotypes and the level of recombination among 16 genomes constituting this population.
The data suggest that analysis of the phospho-activation status of the PB leukocyte population may useful for monitoring disease activity and/or responsiveness to therapy.
An understanding of LD patterns in a population is useful for association mapping [ 7, 8].
Quantifying the strength of patients relative to a healthy population is useful to assess a deficit or identify improvements.
Assessing the frequency of a variant in a control or general population is useful in assessing its potential pathogenicity.
Furthermore, data on normal values in the pain-free population are useful in order to have reference values.
14 To help address this issue, comparisons that apply identical methods to two or more independent databases sampling from the same underlying patient population are useful.
