The phrase "a handful of transcripts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of transcripts, often implying that the quantity is manageable or limited.
Example: "After reviewing a handful of transcripts, I was able to identify the key themes in the research."
Alternatives: "a few transcripts" or "several transcripts".
A handful of transcripts are accompanied by MP3 excerpts, including three minutes (out of a comparatively short-winded forty-four) withethe brilliant Bauhaus textile designer Anni Albers, who spoke, in 1968, about escaping Nazi Germany, thanks to an invitation to teach at Black Mountain College, in North Carolina.
However, a handful of transcripts in the same families are strongly up-regulated, especially at the initial phase, indicating a role in photoprotection.
We uncovered a handful of transcripts that were differentially regulated and verified the gene expression patterns by using qPCR.
Expression within the 3FTx family was extremely biased, being dominated by a handful of transcripts while PLA2 expression was much more uniform.
Phospholipase A2 expression was uniformly distributed throughout the class while three-finger toxin expression was dominated by a handful of transcripts, and phylogenetic analyses indicate that toxin divergence may have occurred following speciation.
Several hundred trans-eQTLs have now been identified from meta-analyses [ 17, 20]; most influence just a handful of transcripts, and collectively they barely make a dent in explaining the overall heritability of gene expression.
A handful of other transcripts (labeled in the phylogenetic tree by the mk4 names given to them by the Maker gene prediction program in SmedGD [ 51]) shared some sequence similarity with this family but did not contain the Importin-β binding domain (Fig. 4b) and could not be detected by in situ hybridization, suggesting that they are not functional homologs.
Expression levels were extremely biased toward a handful of sequences; four transcripts accounted for more than 67.0% of the toxin reads mapping to 3FTxs.
Those restrictions affected only a handful of passages in the transcript.
While it would be interesting to examine the relative expression of each KIR in the context of MHC genotype, macaques can express up to 20 distinct MHC class I transcripts and only a handful of macaque KIR/MHC binding partners have been identified [ 42, 43].
