We conducted a series of tests that cover a variety of practical scenarios, such as when the reference is incomplete, when the sample lacks a reference and has to be mapped to the reference of a close species or when there are large variations between the reference and the sample that have the effect of confounding the pairing relation.
The latter suffered from slow CO2 diffusion in water whereas the former, despite the facilitated transport of gaseous CO2 across NiMR samples, lacked a sufficient supply of leached magnesium and dissolved CO2.
Therefore, these studies did not adequately address the possibility that haploinsufficiency of a single 5q31.2 gene could arise from a heterozygous point mutation, or small microdeletion, in a 5q31.2 gene in MDS samples lacking a cytogenetic del 5q).
Specificity of the PCR amplification was demonstrated by no amplification of the samples lacking a template, and by sequencing of amplified templates.
Any patient samples lacking a diagnosis based on cystoscopy as the gold standard (i.e. in the absence of a record of clinical truth), or where only one test result was available, were discarded.
This finding suggests that, although some samples lacked a sufficient number of nucleated cells to allow the cytological interpretation, the material was enough to obtain a valid HPV test result.
On occasions when the selected individual for light trap sampling lacked a net, he or she was provided with an untreated net for the nights during which they participated.
Patient samples lacking a diagnosis, or with only one test result available, were discarded; the remaining global integrated dataset comprised 939 samples (Table 1), including samples from 89 patients with UC and samples from 850 patients who did not have UC.
First, a convenience sample lacks randomness; thus, selection bias may affect the sample, reducing the generalizability of the results.
Such a small sample lacks heterogeneity (i.e. diversity) and does not approximate the normal distribution [ 87].
