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Absent significant reform, the escalating costs of these programs will, in decades to come, crowd out what remains of the federal "discretionary" budget--the FBI, NASA, Yosemite, and all the rest.
Based on earlier analyses of the small effect size of the DRD4 exon III VNTR polymorphism, we estimated statistical power for genotypic associations for different sample sizes and the allele frequencies 4-present and 4-absent (0.
The tyrosine at this position (shared with TOX) is a DNA contact in the NHP6A-DNA complex [ 7 ] . Moreover, there is a conserved proline at position 70 of the sequence-specific DNA binding proteins that truncates the third alpha helix of the HMG-box structure allowing additional DNA contacts [ 24 27 28 ] . This proline is absent from TOX and the sequence-independent HMG-box proteins.
When no presence / absence filter was applied (12533 probe sets included in the analysis), the estimated false detection rate (ratio method) increased from 37% to 73% because there were fewer differences (at P < 0.01) among the "absent" mRNAs than expected by chance (48 observed vs. 79 expected by chance).
In examining such a strain on a microarray, the spots would either exhibit signal (corresponding to present genes) or be missing signal (corresponding to absent genes).