While MSP provides a sensitive technique for detecting promoter methylation in tumour samples, the ability to detect low levels of methylation, in only a subset of tumour cells, can exaggerate the frequency of promoter methylation.
However, if a large proportion of the arrays are affected by RNA quality – which is likely to often be the case where the RNA is derived from irreplaceable historical clinical samples – the ability to retain all arrays and to account for these effects in the analysis will be valuable.
After illumination under the power of 5.5 mW/cm of UV365, cell sheets obtained from both TN samples and TR samples had the ability to reattach on the normal 24-well plates.
If the colony count of sample-induced revertants is higher than that of the spontaneously occurring revertants, it would suggest that the sample possesses the ability to cause mutagenesis.
The study sample limited the ability to examine the effects of gender, age and education.
There was no overall relationship between the observed coverage of each sample and the ability to annotate functions for each sequence (Fig. S4).
Strength of the study is the fairly large sample and the ability to combine results from birth records and questionnaires, which makes it possible to present obstetric outcome together with women's experiences.
Thus, although we found that two urine samples improved the ability to predict BPA exposure tertiles, the preferred temporal spacing of the two samples is currently unclear.
However, poor countries in Asia, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, lack the veterinary facilities for surveillance of the disease in animals, the laboratories to test samples and the ability to respond swiftly to eradicate outbreaks.
All fermented samples showed the ability to protect plasmidial DNA against oxidation.
