ascertainment bias

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bias
noun
uk
/ˈbaɪ.əs/us
/ˈbaɪ.əs/
the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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Examplesofascertainment bias

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The relatively low number of reports of patients with deletions may therefore be a result ofascertainmentbias.
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Ascertainmentbiaswas first invoked to explain systematic differences in microsatellite allele lengths between species.
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In addition toascertainmentbias, variation at microsatellite loci may also be influenced by their location in the genome.
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Since there was no parent data from non-returnees it is not known whether there was anyascertainmentbiason demographic features or family characteristics.
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Ascertainmentbiascannot entirely account for human microstallites being longer than their chimpanzee homologues.
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Ascertainmentbiascan also occur but can be minimized by strict adherence to definition for selection of cases.
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Such reciprocal studies, do not, however, allow the estimation of howascertainmentbiaschanges with increasing genetic distance from the source of the microsatellites.
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The causes ofascertainmentbiasin measures of allelic diversity are more complex.
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Implications of comorbidity andascertainmentbiasfor identifying disease genes.
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Microsatellite evolution : testing theascertainmentbiashypothesis.
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He discovered the answer to several seeming paradoxes caused byascertainmentbias.
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This dilemma is known as anascertainmentbias.
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The active duty component thus constitutes a cohort where health events can be assessed longitudinally with minimalascertainmentbias.
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The result is a form ofascertainmentbias.
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Medical sources sometimes refer to sampling bias asascertainmentbias.
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Both the dimensional and categorical approaches are sensitive to the case inclusion criteria and ascertainment biases in the population under study.
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There is some concern that these cases with additional symptoms may reflect anascertainmentbiasrather than being a true representation of the clinical spectrum of the disease.
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