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The seeming preponderance of young full-length LTR retrotransposons in the euchromatin of rice is similar to previous reports on yeast [ 19, 20], Caenorhabditis elegans [ 7], A. thaliana [ 21] and Drosophila melanogaster [ 12].
The frequencies of the A*03-B*14 haplotype were significantly increased in persons with hemochromatosis in Brittany, Sweden, Utah, and Alabama (Table 5) [ Additional file 3] [ 31 ] . A significantly increased absolute frequency of the haplotype A*03-B*35 occurred in Alabama probands and in hemochromatosis patients in Italy [ 29 ] . A significantly increased frequency of the haplotype A*03-B*15 was observed in the present Alabama hemochromatosis probands; a relative increase in this haplotype was detected in hemochromatosis cohorts in Brittany and Utah [ 2 20 ] . A significantly increased frequency of the haplotype A*03-B*44 was observed in the present Alabama hemochromatosis probands, whereas a relative increase in this haplotype was reported in hemochromatosis cohorts in Sweden, Brittany, and Utah only after "correction" of the data for the preponderance of other haplotypes (Table 5) [ Additional file 3] [ 31 ] . The increased frequencies of the A*01-B*60, A*02-B*39, A*02-B*62, A*03-B*13, A*03-B*27, A*03-B*47, and A*03-B*57 haplotypes observed in Alabama probands in the present study were not reported in persons with hemochromatosis in the seven other countries for which data were available (Table 5) [ Additional file 3] [ 31 ] .
The rub, however, is that fitness-enhancing mutations are a small minority, and the preponderance of deleterious mutations means that RNA viruses live on the edge of survival (Domingo 2000).
Yet, this correlation does not explain the overall preponderance of antagonistic epistasis observed in two computational systems [ 2 11 ] , nor the absence of overall synergistic epistasis in most biological systems that have been carefully studied in this regard.
As far as grammar is concerned, the simplistic syntax and the exceptional preponderance of nouns and verbs (with an accompanying heavy reliance on conversion) are obvious and enduring.
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