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The mean densities for all the samples were calculated separately and mean intensities in positive samples were calculated ignoring the negative samples.
Positive control: Supernatant from Rous sarcoma virus-transformed CEFs (tCEFs), which are known to produce high levels of PA.
Results were classified as positive or negative according to whether a significant association ( P < 0.05) was found between stroke (or carotid atherosclerosis) and a polymorphism.
The assumption underlying this system is that positive findings on earlier, more basic tests of neurotoxicity in adult animals will “trigger” the EPA to request more extensive testing by manufacturers, including tests in immature animals.
Possible reasons for this are: first, that the sequence is unique in the human genome and was never 3' transduced (false positive); second, that the sequence has a counterpart in the unsequenced portion of the human genome; third, the loss of the full-length progenitor L1 due to recombination [ 48 ] , or fourth, that the progenitor L1 sequence suffered from extensive mutations that precluded its detection as a 3' intact L1, and therefore, the downstream sequence was not included in our BLAST database.