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Over the past century, sleep duration in children and adolescents showed a trend of 0.75 min less per year [2] .

However, we obtained a highly significant difference in allele frequencies between invasive and naturalized populations.

No genetic diversity measures differed significantly between the native and adventive ranges, with the exception of allelic richness ( R S ), where the difference was marginally significant ( Table 2 ), suggesting slightly higher allelic richness in the adventive range.

Collector effects were also highly significant with specimens collected by Stockard delivering 345.6 bp less than those collected by Common.

Specifically, a joinpoint analysis of smoking prevalence among Massachusetts Medicaid benefit-eligible members (age 18–64) from 1999 through 2008 found a decreasing trend that was coincident with the implementation of the benefit.

For example, whereas the two subfamilies differ primarily according to cranial depth and distal tooth row extension in the time-averaged comparison (where the probabilities are not quite significant), their differences are better attributed to the transverse width of the occipital region in the MAZ-1 comparison (where the probabilities are significant).

Since there may be significant potential in therapies targeting the novel pathological pathways, it is crucial to understand the molecular mechanisms involved in cardiac pathophysiology, especially ones specifically operated in the hearts.

Multivariate analysis revealed that only optimal surgery was an independent prognostic factor for PFS in the discovery dataset ( Table S2 ) and that there was marginally significant correlation between debulking status of primary surgery and PFS time in the external dataset ( Table S2 ).

Highly significant correlations between the resistances to the three diseases were found [11] .

This was lower than the LAP of wild type rescuants (19.9 s, 16.7–24.0), but the differences were not quite significant at the 5% level ( wt vs.

3 and 4 , there does not appear to be a clear trend that viremia or use of ARV results in loss of antigen presentation ability compared to uninfected controls.

Also, since the results were only marginally significant, they are probably false-positive findings.

No significant correlation (Spearman’s rho = 0.077, p = 0.557) is indicated between expression level and tumor stages, however, there is a positive trend.

In the blinding diabetic retinopathy cases, rs669173 (p = 0.017 in the additive model), and rs7521189 (p = 0.023 in the additive model) were nominally significant, however did not survive correction for multiple testing ( Table 2 ).

Although the lack of highly significant association in the retinopathy group is likely attributable to power, it is possible that other influences play a greater role in determining serum ADMA levels once microvascular damage has occurred.

These differences were highly significant.

This result confirms the published QTL mapping for LMA in the WW1842 x Whistler doubled haploid position which showed segregation of the Rht-B1 locus with the Rht-B1a allele of Whistler tightly linked or co-located to a highly significant QTL for LMA in the population [10] .

As summarized in Figure 4 (A, C), the cell viability of PEG-Bu, PEI-Bu and PEI 25 kDa displayed a decreasing trend with increasing polymer concentration, indicating that the cytotoxicity of these polymers was concentration-dependent.

We found a marginally non-significant tendency for a relationship between differences in parental feeding rates ( = when using the growth rate as a proxy) between foster and focal parents and the future reproductive investment of the daughters.

In 27 SNPs of ESR1, ESR2 and PGR by Sequenom MassARRAY assays, p values <0.05 were defined as nominally significant, and samples were further subjected to Bonferroni correction to correct multiple comparisons.

The regulation of miRNA-196b by DNA methylation has been shown to be involved in the development of many other cancers and may be significant in CML.

We cannot exclude the role of birth weight in our study since it was of borderline significance in univariate analysis and because this parameter was not available for all the children.

In the three GO categories, although the statistical test above did not show highly significant differences, the ratios of frequencies in GO slim terms between the fruiting bodies and the mycelia are high in some GO slim terms ( Figure 2) .

Our models investigating whether individuals exhibit plasticity in their signaling behavior were highly significant, explaining 71–97% of the variation in signaling traits ( Tables 2 – 4 ).

Note that although a quadratic effect is apparent for the right precuneus in Figure 2B , this effect just failed to reach significance ( p FWE = .06).