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MNS red cell antigens, one of the few genetic markers available at that time, were initially found to be linked to insulin resistance in 86 non-diabetic Pima Indians from 31 nuclear families using a sib-pair analysis and they were also associated with insulin resistance in 132 non-diabetic Pima Indians [ 4].
At least initially, they found well-meaning new acquaintances at the Islamic Center of San Diego, which was only a stone's throw from the apartment where they first lived.
Because a large proportion of street costs are fixed,27 the unit (per piece) street cost initially declines rapidly as volume increases and continues to decline at a decreasing rate.
The newly developed search algorithm (LTR_STRUC) we have used in this study to initially identify LTR retrotransposons in the rice genome is not dependent upon sequence homology as are standard search methods such as BLAST.
Nagel's more subtle complaint is that an increase in sexual tolerance has been transmogrified into an increase in sexual shaming: "What looked initially like a growth of freedom has culminated in the reinstitution of the public pillory."