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The mutant 2369 T peak was small, possibly because gefitinib had been discontinued in this patient for 4 mo at the time pleural fluid tumor cells were collected; thus, there was no selective advantage conferred upon cells bearing the T790M mutation.
Identification of this activity as *AroQ, and not AroQ•PheA, was verified by elution of a single peak of chorismate mutase in the wash fraction recovered after Mono Q chromatography of the periplasmic fraction.
For chromosome 13, a list of 78 genes was selected, most of which are within 2 Mb upstream or 2 Mb downstream of the peak LOD score (approximately 37 cM from the centromere).
The results shown in Figure 1A, indicate that the sedimentation peak for the wild type p66/p66 homodimer was between fractions 16-19 of the gradient (Panel A), whereas the wild type p51 species sedimented between fractions 22-28, as a monomeric protein (Panel C).
However, the highest levels of contamination (40%) produced a spike in the bias and variance of several mode estimators (especially HRM), probably because the contamination was a significant peak in the distribution, competing with the true mode.