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The last five covariates were included in the model because these can potentially confound the smoking-RA relationship.
Sequence differences in these highly variable components of L1 elements confound precise definition of the TSDs that define L1 insertion boundaries.
Now, the Australian was quite angry over the firing of her husband, and probably she was being deliberately un-American on the phone to confound yet another stupid Yank.
Patients might also be excluded from the trial at screening if subacute or chronic lesions are found that may confound measurements of lesion volumes or clinical severity as outcome variables.
The underlying assumption is that the genes coding for ribosomal proteins that function as components of a large macromolecular complex are unlikely to undergo horizontal transfer, which tends to confound comparisons of the tree topologies for other protein families and would invalidate the concatenation approach.