The phrase "a more significant proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a larger or more important part of a whole in various contexts, such as statistics, research, or analysis.
Example: "In the recent survey, a more significant proportion of respondents indicated a preference for online shopping over traditional retail."
Alternatives: "a larger share" or "a greater percentage".
This could be because the 16S rRNA probes used in the subtractive hybridisation technique may hybridise to a more significant proportion of the community than previously considered.
For genes showing the features exemplified by BTN3A2, we observed a weaker correlation between the more common allele and the chimpanzee nucleotide, i.e., a more significant proportion of the rare alleles matched the ancestral nucleotides.
In this cluster, a noteworthy distinction among tolerant and sensitive genotypes is that, in both rice and barley sensitive genotypes, a more significant proportion of the genes related to osmosensing and salt stress are down-regulated.
Our Twist1-overexpressing AML patients exhibited a more aggressive clinical phenotype as well, as a more significant proportion of these patients were thrombocytopenic and/or had a PB blast count >30%.
This is a noteworthy finding, though it is unclear whether a similar effect is observed at institutions where a more significant proportion of students intercalate, and the effect of differing course structures also warrants investigation.
p Neu250 gave differential results that were in favor of the tumor cells; it promoted a more significant proportion of death in MCF-7 than in SK-BR-3 cells (Fig. 4) that correlated with their respective levels of αGal epitope expression (Fig. 3).
Catch-up and on-demand viewing is now a far more significant proportion of TV ratings than a decade or even a few years ago, but the overnight audience remains a significant indicator of a show's popularity.
What's more, a significant proportion of patients aren't fully treated despite taking multiple medications, says Vivek Bhalla, MD, assistant professor of nephrology and co-director of Stanford's Hypertension Center.
Although some students revised their maps to make them more complex, a significant proportion of students simplified their maps.
He accepts that the Howard government did, indeed, spend a lot of money promoting Anzac-related themes, but that the National Museum in Canberra received much more money, a significant proportion of which went towards promoting Aboriginal history.
More recently, a significant proportion of cultured fibroblasts from Rassf1a null mouse embryos (Rassf1a –/– MEFs) were found to exhibit delayed mitosis which resulted in cytokinesis failure [148].
