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Mieder and Kingsbury are highly respected par(o)emiologists (`experts in the field of proverbs' for those who have the RHD Unabridged , which does not list the word or any of its congeners), hence one would assume that such a collection is not entirely a waste of time.
Evidence may in fact suggest, although there is some debate, that exposure of female rhesus monkeys to aroclor 1254 (a mixture of PCB congeners) leads to a reduction in the sex ratio of offspring, possibly contributed to by increased spontaneous abortion of male fetuses [ 28 29 30 ] . Preconception parental estrogen levels have also been hypothesized to affect the sex ratio of live births [ 22 ] , and given the estrogenic and anti-estrogenic actions of different PCB congeners [ 57 58 ] , this could be another mechanism by which parental exposure to PCBs alters the sex ratio.
Recoveries of spiked samples were greater than 90% for the individual congeners.
For samples run in duplicate, the average percent difference was 20% or less for individual PCB congeners.
Several methods have been proposed to assign values to samples that are below the limit of detection, all of which may introduce bias [ 39 40 41 ] . We have used a method based on one described by Hornung and Reed [ 40 ] and modified in conjunction with scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reduce overestimation when summing many individual congeners for which few of the samples are detectable.