The phrase "a minor overlap between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing similarities or commonalities between two or more subjects, indicating that the overlap is small or not significant.
Example: "There is a minor overlap between the two studies, suggesting that some of the findings may be related."
Alternatives: "a slight overlap between" or "a small intersection between".
Mapping all genes with 5'-TOP elements of a recent study in the human genome to our list of LTSM-positive genes resulted in a minor overlap of 52 between the 1399 LTSM-positive and the 1114 TOP-positive genes including 17 RP genes [ 16].
While there is only a minor overlap in their readership, the two magazines were considered rivals.
There was a moderate overlap in subnetwork nodes (as high as 28.4%) but a minor overlap in subnetwork edges (as high as 13.6%).
Saxonov et al (2006) discovered a bipartite distribution of gene promoters with minor overlap between both classes when categorising promoter sequences by means of their CpG content.
The difference in LOD peak location and only minor overlap between these two QTL may also indicate that these are separate, linked loci of opposite effects that are most pronounced in contrasting environments.
We detected only minor overlap between neurons that stained positive for ChAT and those that expressed GFP in the NB, GP, MS/DBB, or PPN, except for cortical ChAT+ interneurons, where we observed significant overlap (GFP+/ChAT + neurons: Ctx: 122/136; MS/DBB, 1/573; NB, 0/439; GP, 7/413; PPN, 12/246, Figure 3 figure supplement 1).
We anticipated only minor overlaps between the data from their paper and our results since histopathological data from our investigated bladder biopsies indicated that urothelial cells contribute only a minor part of all cell types.
A minor peripheral overlap between these retinotopic and our cytoarchitectonical areas cannot be completely ruled out.
The minor overlap observed between the SNP and PA sets discovered using different RE pairs apparently results from both the differences in the distribution of restriction sites and the low coverage achieved for complexity reduced libraries.
