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The 21-day follow-up period incorporated a clinical expectation that the vast majority of influenza/ILI-related complications would occur within this period, and that complications that extended beyond 21 days would usually be ascribable in part to pre-existing illness.
However, in every case where we use the Osr acronym in this paper to refer to a previously named family, we also include any pre-existing name(s) for the family (for example, Osr15/Tos12, Osr26/Rire2 ).
L1s were found inserted in presumably pre-existing elements of the LINE/L1 family 13.
Starting from a group of 19,993 twins from Finland who have been studied since 1975, the authors gathered data from the 2,957 overweight participants who remained after they had excluded people with pre-existing disease, and those with missing data.
That this displacement might have occurred by in situ insertion of a non-orthologous gene is suggested by the detection, on three separate occasions, of unusual remnants of pre-existing genes.