Studies were excluded if there was
major potential bias or inadequate statistical analysis for the research question.
Not exact matches
Although a scan of the published record for potentially applicable studies turned up 1,553 possible candidates, independent reviewers dismissed most of them as containing either
potential biases or
major deficiencies in their design or data reports.
Various manipulations of the data showed that two
major potential confounding factors, SNP ascertainment
bias and weak selection at presumably - neutral sites, had little influence on the inferences from their data set.