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They found that a differential expression ratio cut-off of greater than or equal to 2-fold produced excellent correlation between samples amplified with different amounts of input poly(A) +RNA but that a 3-fold differential expression ratio threshold should be set for comparing ratios between amplified and unamplified mRNA.
In our arrays, a normalized value of 150 corresponds roughly to a spot whose S/N ratio equals 1, and thus any spot whose background-corrected intensity falls below this threshold cannot be reliably distinguished from background noise.
The political threshold for adopting a government-owned health service model in the United States is very high, since most citizens fear the specter of “socialized medicine.”
Protein secondary structure was predicted using a multiple alignment as the input for the JPRED and PHD programs [ 39 40 ] . Preliminary clustering of proteins was done using the BLASTCLUST program with empirically determined length and score threshold cut off values (For documentation see ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/documents/README.bcl).
Most published microarray studies use a single log 2 (ratio) threshold as a measure of differential expression.