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Of these individuals about 40% present with metastatic disease and a further third will develop distant metastases during the postoperative course.
In fact, there is little danger that teen-agers are going to order unusual wines from distant wineries, wait days for them to arrive, arrange to have their parents out of the house when they do, and then ...
Cells most distant from the basement membrane showed no staining (white arrowhead).
Therefore, we carried out a relative rate test on amino-acid substitutions [ 15] on those pairs of paralogs, for which an ortholog was available that was more distant from either of the paralogs than the paralogs were from each other (orthologs that were too distant to be used for the relative rate test were discarded; see Materials and methods).
(ii) For query sequences that do have orthologs, absence of overlap between the sequences considered orthologous and those which appear to be subtree-neighbors raises a red flag, indicating that the orthologs are in phylogenetically distant species relative to the query.