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No doubt an energetic investigator can dig up horrible cases (though most of Anders' don't pass the outrage threshold since, in the end, the patients got the care they sought).
The average difference (signal) is proportional to mRNA abundance [ 15] and the average difference change is the difference between the signal intensity for a probe set on chip 1 and the signal intensity for that same probe set on chip 2. Raising the average difference-change threshold to 200, which corresponds to about 3-5 copies of the mRNA transcript per cell on average [ 16], yielded 11 genes scored as differentially expressed, producing a very low false-positive rate of less than 0.2%.
By lengthening the tests to include one or more complete life cycles and observing the more subtle effects of the toxicants, such as a reduction in growth and reproduction, more accurate, direct, estimates of the threshold or safe concentration of the toxicant could be obtained.
The sensitivity of this method depended on the p-value threshold for the individual profiles, but only reached a maximum of 49% sensitivity at p < 0.0001 (Fig.
Although the consistent advice from EPA's Science Advisory Board has been to model premature mortality associated with PM exposure as a non-threshold effect, that is, with harmful effects to exposed populations regardless of the absolute level of ambient PM concentrations, some analysts have hypothesized the presence of a threshold relationship.