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For samples run in duplicate, the average percent difference was 20% or less for individual PCB congeners.
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.
Rather, it is sufficient that the training set be related to, but not necessarily congeners of, the species from which sequences are being compared.
Vulgar still carries the strong denotation exemplified in the first (hence the most frequently encountered) sense, “characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation .” It has congeners, like vulgarian “a vulgar person”; vulgarism “ 1. the state or quality of being vulgar.
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.