Given a passage with a question and an answer to that question, classify if the answer actually answers the question into 'yes' or 'no'. Output 'yes' if the answer answers the question and output 'no' if the answer does not answer the question.

Q: Question: Does degenerative spondylolisthesis affect the outcome of unilateral laminotomy with bilateral decompression in patients with lumbar stenosis?
Answer: Our study thus indicates that preoperative degenerative spondylolisthesis does not worsen the outcome of patients with lumbar stenosis undergoing unilateral laminotomy with bilateral decompression. These results suggest that lumbar fusion is often unnecessary in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis and lumbar stenosis if the posterior decompression technique is unilateral laminotomy with bilateral decompression.

A: no
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Q: Question: Do novel meta-analysis-derived type 2 diabetes risk loci determine prediabetic phenotypes?
Answer: In contrast to the first series of GWA-derived type 2 diabetes candidate SNPs, we could not detect reliable associations of the novel risk loci with prediabetic phenotypes. Possible weak effects of ADAMTS9 SNP rs4607103 and VEGFA SNP rs9472138 on insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion, respectively, await further confirmation by larger studies.

A: no
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Q: Question: Are interleukin-1B and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphisms associated with premalignant gastric conditions : a combined haplotype analysis?
Answer: The determination of these IL1-related loci does not have any predictive value for stratification of subgroups with respect to gastric cancer risk.

A:
no
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