The phrase "a limited overlap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a small or restricted area of commonality or similarity between two or more things.
Example: "The study revealed a limited overlap in the findings of the two research projects, indicating that they addressed different aspects of the issue."
Alternatives: "a small intersection" or "a narrow overlap".
I have a limited overlap of Velcro on the back of these masks – a small head or shiny hair can cause it to slip off and I have to hope they have protruding enough ears to hook it over.
For example, if a user has joined three groups on a social network, there is a limited overlap between the groups' membership lists, and those lists are public, it may simply be a matter of working out who belongs to all three groups.This sounds rather contrived, but it works in practice.
There is a limited overlap of the summer and winter ranges in western Europe.
The meta-analysis of the genes revealed a limited overlap among the tissues: only 77 genes are expressed in 2 tissues, 23 in 3 and more.
There was a limited overlap in up-regulated and down-regulated genes between any two treatments with most of overlap observed between IFN-γ treatment and H37Rv infection.
Comparison of our study with earlier reports of human glomerular-enriched databases using different techniques resulted in a limited overlap (Figure 1).
This twofold evaluation aims to investigate in what measure the biological functions captured by different gene sets can be similar, despite a limited overlapping among these sets.
Prieto and De Las Rivas [41] have shown a limited intersection and overlap between the six major PPI databases for human proteins (BioGRID, BIND, MINT, HPRD, IntAct, DIP) [42] [47].
Owing to the competition of reproductive and somatic organs for available energy, we expected that CR would affect different sets of genes, and indeed found that a set of genes affected by CR in ovary had a very limited overlap with a set of genes affected by CR in liver and heart.
The other two datasets obtained by Fadista et al. [ 35] and Liu et al. [ 51] who used a CGH array, show a more limited overlap with our dataset, namely 19%and18%8%.
While proteomic analysis identified a total of 646 proteins in analyzed samples, a very limited overlap between genomic and proteomic data was observed.
