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In the clustering literature, measures of agreement between partitions are referred to as external indices; several such indices are reviewed next.
Other indices are similarly mixed: October has historically been the worst month for the Nasdaq Composite Index, but ranks seventh for the Standard & Poor's 500.
We used this measure in preference to waist to hip ratio, because a study which determined peripheral and abdominal adipose tissue content in children using magnetic resonance imaging found that WC:AC correlated positively with intra-abdominal adipose tissue (r ± 0.63, P = 0.001) while waist to hip ratio did not (r = 0.11) [ 34 ] . Two other indices of central adiposity were calculated from skinfolds: Central-peripheral (CPR) as subscapular skinfold + suprailliac skinfold) / (triceps skinfold+ thigh skinfold) and ratio of subscapular to triceps skinfold (STR).
Gene prediction programs used are described in Table 2. The Mouse and Rat Indices of Non-redundant Transcripts (MINT and RINT) were derived from Mouse and Rat UniGene [ 81] using the same approach that we have applied to human UniGene [ 19].
Codon adaptation indices were computed for each simulated sequence using the EMBOSS suite of sequence analysis tools [ 49 ] .