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Chunk #16 — Bias in a protocol for a meta-analysis of 5-HTTLPR, stress, and depression — Issue 2: The protocol excludes studies with N < 300

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Bias in a protocol for a meta-analysis of 5-HTTLPR, stress, and depression.
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opportunity for the Culverhouse team. In fact, our claim is not really that smaller studies are more desirable. Our claim is that the largest studies are least desirable because they have the worst measurement technology and in many cases have been unable to establish temporal order, which is rather different. Including a test of sample size as a heterogeneity factor could shed light on the veracity of our claim.