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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.
Constructs for generating the control reagents are available through the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC); accession numbers are given in Table 1. We describe how scaled frequency normalization can be used to estimate message abundance in cRNA, compute a chip sensitivity metric and provide a natural scale for damping spurious signals from below-sensitivity mRNAs.
In order to compensate for the multiple testing and thus to avoid imparting spurious significance, we used a stringent significance level of 0.002 for each test.
If whole-length proteins were used, the searches were carried out using the composition-based statistics [ 37] in order to prevent the detection of spurious matches that could arise from low-complexity segments in the query or target proteins.
The number of examples in this category could be increased, and some have already been considered in the literature, for example the spurious discovery of a 'functional PDZ domain' in the molecular chaperone ClpA ([ 46], see refutation in [ 47]) or the finding of an ATPase domain and death effector domains in the apoptosis-associated protein FLASH ([ 48], see refutation in [ 49]).