The phrase "a class of diseases" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific category or grouping of diseases that share common characteristics or causes.
Example: "Diabetes and hypertension are part of a class of diseases that are often linked to lifestyle choices."
Alternatives: "a category of illnesses" or "a group of disorders".
Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by an imbalance between cell proliferation and programmed cell death.
The disorder was soon found to be related to a class of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies caused when brain proteins deform and become highly toxic.
Finally, we will investigate how, in a class of diseases known as lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs), disruption of nutrient transport may contribute to metabolic derangement and cell death.
Genomic disorders constitute a class of diseases that are associated with DNA rearrangements resulting from region-specific genome instability, that is, genome architecture incites genome instability.
There have already been some notable successes in using information about mutations to fight cancer, which is really a class of diseases in which cells in the body grow out of control because of the accumulation of mutations.
Abstract More than a decade has passed since the initial identification of ribosomal protein gene mutations in patients with Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA), a hematologic disorder that became the founding member of a class of diseases known as ribosomopathies.
Our findings reveal a class of disease-causing mutations that inactivate protein function by disrupting chaperone-mediated folding in vivo.
These approaches include employing a unified framework that integrates a class of disease risk models for modeling the joint effects of genes and environmental exposures and using a set of constraints that are biologically plausible in order to increase the power of tests and to reduce false-positives.
Tauopathies, a class of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and progressive supranuclear palsy, are characterized by the pathological aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau tangles in the human brain [ 1].
To illustrate how a disease manifests itself in a particular tissue, consider tauopathies, a class of neurodegenerative diseases associated with the pathological aggregation of τ protein within neurons.
As though that weren't bad enough, Huntington's belongs to a class of genetic diseases that largely escape natural selection.
