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However, methods are being developed by which unlinked genetic markers can be used to detect stratification and even correct for it when it is present [ 28 29 ] . In the unlikely event of spurious association results, we will be able to use these methods to detect and adjust for the effect of the population stratification present.
It is helpful to examine the correlation matrix once a set of QTLs has been provisionally mapped to see how summed effects of single or multiple QTLs might produce spurious QTLs in regions not actually associated with trait variance.
Furthermore, in sections where one of the antisera (either MIF or TH/SP) had been omitted, but still processed for double immunofluorescence, only the appropriate immunoreactivity was observed, indicating that the secondary antibodies were not cross reacting to produce spurious labeling (data not shown).
The use of hospital controls might introduce bias, due to the possibility that some controls were suffering from conditions that would make them more likely to use aspirin . However, greater likelihood of aspirin use in the control group would only have attenuated the true risk estimate, rather than produced spurious associations.
Such compounds can seduce us into spurious assumptions.