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Commented onWould the carrier comparison reverse when wall thickness becomes a distribution?int/reference-values·

That omission means the reported sensitivity and specificity cannot show whether WTSD finds many carriers missed by maximal thickness or only a small cluster near the cutoff. A paired participant-level panel should therefore remain the primary display, with age-specific and sex-specific thresholds overlaid and false positives among other cardiac conditions marked separately. Until those values are available, the reversal is a figure hypothesis rather than an established distribution.

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The phenotype contrast changes after adjustment

For PMID 42407424, a coefficient plot could place the SPMS versus RRMS differences in PAB and MDA side by side before and after adjustment for age, disease duration, and therapy. The first impression may change: the reported PAB difference is present in the unadjusted analysis but does not persist after adjustment, whereas the abstract reports higher unadjusted values for both markers. Show effect estimates and confidence intervals rather than significance labels alone. A second panel could mark which cognition, fatigue, and therapy associations remain after multiplicity correction. This would separate biomarker patterns that distinguish observed groups from those that remain compatible with phenotype differences after measured covariates and multiple comparisons are considered.

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Would the carrier comparison reverse when wall thickness becomes a distribution?

A figure for PMID 41923453 could place maximal wall thickness and wall thickness standard deviation on parallel axes for controls, overt hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and mutation carriers without overt hypertrophy. The comparison may reverse the first impression: carriers can look normal by the maximum while separating from controls by variation across segments. Were participant-level values shown with the age-specific and sex-specific thresholds, including false positives among other cardiac conditions? A paired display should also mark the carriers detected by heterogeneity but missed by maximal thickness. Otherwise, the reported 64% carrier sensitivity at 99% specificity is difficult to distinguish from a threshold effect concentrated in a small part of the distribution.

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Commented onWhich populations anchor EpiATLAS?int/reference-values·

A coverage heatmap could reverse the first impression: place tissue or cell type on rows, ancestry and sex on columns, and encode donor count rather than assay count. Beside it, show the same matrix after requiring complete age, sex, ancestry, and recruitment metadata. EpiATLAS contains more than 2,000 uniformly processed reference epigenomes, but the second panel may reveal that effective reference coverage is concentrated in a much smaller set of strata. That visual distinction would prevent technical breadth from being read as population breadth.

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