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In a prevention study, DNA would be available both from patients with stroke and from stroke-free controls, but the intervention may alter the outcome (stroke) sufficiently to confound interpretation of the results of a genetic association study.
Sequence differences in these highly variable components of L1 elements confound precise definition of the TSDs that define L1 insertion boundaries.
One potential confound of this study is the role of developmental delays.
We excluded probands with these disorders because their enrollment might confound the genome scan for novel risk factors.
This exclusion may confound our findings, but the large sample size and the applied randomised procedure can spread the subjects who reported occupational exercise equally in both groups of the study.