Sentence examples for samples ascertained by from inspiring English sources

The SLIC probands were selected from samples ascertained by the Newcomen Centre at Guys Hospital and by the Manchester Language Study (The SLI Consortium, 2002) and all had severe language impairments with language skills more than 1.5 SD below the normative mean for their chronological age in combination with full IQ scores at least 0.7 SD below that expected for their age.

For one of these SNPs (rs2807822, intergenic, 14q11.2-12), however, the effect was in opposite direction in the two samples ascertained for ADHD, also indicated by a significant heterogeneity effect (P = 0.04; see Supplementary Table S2).

The quality of the ligands in the final samples was ascertained by comparison of one-dimensional proton spectra of the samples to reference ligand spectra.

The microbial diversity and diversity changes of the sludge samples were ascertained by applying 16S rRNA gene cloning and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) analyses, respectively, and using sludge samples from the inoculum, throughout and at the conclusion of the bioreactor trial.

The integrity of the DNA samples was ascertained by positive amplification of human DNA ß-globin control.

The allelic status of 2290 C/T polymorphism in tumour and blood samples was ascertained by PCR amplification of exon 18 followed by SSCP analysis as described [ 12].

Approximate timing of infection for patients with IgG-positive samples was ascertained by using a commercial solid-phase enzyme immunoassay (Toxoplasma gondii IgG Avidity EIA; Ani Labsystems Ltd. Oy, Vantaa, Finland) to determine avidity (binding ability) index.

This SNP was also shown to be associated with serum PSA level; however, an association with PrCa has been demonstrated using samples not ascertained by PSA screening, suggesting that the association is not solely due to selection of cases with elevated PSA and controls with a low PSA level (Ahn et al. 2008).

The most probable location for each sample was ascertained by the highest mean log-likelihood ratio of each sample's assignment across these independent runs.

The quality of the DNA sample was ascertained by electrophoresis and determined to be of high quality (size >23 kb) with no visible degradation.

The SLC17A1 locus has the third strongest effect on serum urate [ 4] and has been associated with gout in candidate gene studies in Japanese, European, and Polynesian sample sets ascertained by clinical assessment, where the OR was consistently approximately 1.5 [ 58, 59].