Sentences with phrase «degree of selection bias»

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We show that in fact, so long as the disease is sufficiently polygenic, the selection coefficients of individual loci are insensitive to the fitness cost of the disease, and instead depend on the distribution of effect sizes and the degree of mutational bias toward increased disease liability.

Even with this careful attention to selection bias, we confirm the findings of prior studies showing that teachers with master's degrees are no more effective than those without.

It seems to me the magnitude of the event is important — this maximum is 3 degrees greater than the previous — but this also suffers from selection bias.