Microbiome sequencing data are known to be biased; the measured taxa relative abundances can be systematically distorted from their true values at every step in the experimental/analysis workflow. If ...

When researchers verify the effects of genes or gene–environment interactions on common diseases or age-related diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, or coronary heart disease, they usually regard age ...

BACKGROUND Research on assortative mating – how partner characteristics affect the likelihood of union formation – commonly uses the log-linear model, but this approach has been criticized for its ...