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Leveraging remeasured samples in biomedical studies

A recent study develops a statistical method of correcting batch effects by employing remeasured samples in highly confounded case–control studies.

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Fig. 1: Leveraging remeasured samples in highly confounded biomedical studies.

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Zhong, L., Bacher, R. Leveraging remeasured samples in biomedical studies. Nat Comput Sci 3, 669–670 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-023-00491-6

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