The phrase "a preferential position" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something is given priority or advantage over others.
Example: "The company aims to maintain a preferential position in the market by offering unique products and exceptional customer service."
Alternatives: "an advantageous position" or "a favored position".
Following our previous studies [5], which suggest a preferential position of sulfonamide group in the β-position of the azinyl moiety (confirming the structural analogy for the dihydroquinolin-7-yl-2-one core in aripiprazole), 3-isoquinolyl moiety was selected to design the analogs of aripiprazole.
In Daniel, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that by assigning a "preferential position for the Biblical version of creation" over "any account of the development of man based on scientific research and reasoning," the challenged statute officially promoted religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause.
His career had been solely focused on obtaining a preferential position in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and his election as the archbishop of Cologne, in a close contest with the equally-qualified Wittelsbach candidate, attested not to the diligence and application of his personal faith, but his family's Imperial influence.
Indeed, using the whole promoter set, it is only possible to find the TTCTTC-PLM, which is characterized by a wide functional window and by a preferential position 29 bases downstream of the TSS.
Confirming previous results, we found this PLM in both A. thaliana and O. sativa genomes in a preferential position 32 bases upstream of the TSS and strictly located within the [-39, -26] region.
Recent genome-wide analyses of CpG methylation reveal a preferential positioning of DNA methylation over exons compared with introns, suggesting a potential role of DNA methylation in pre-mRNA splicing regulation.
An interesting feature observed in some of the feature maps was that, in subsets of gene upstream regions, there was a preferential positioning of motifs relative to the TLS (examples discussed below); i.e., motifs show a preference to occur at a particular upstream position relative to the start of translation.
The analysis of HIV-IN-EGFP PICs immediately revealed a clear preferential position at the nuclear periphery.
In addition, we observed a significant increase in contacts between the F plasmid and the Ori and, to a lower extent, the Ter regions of the E. coli genome, suggesting an average preferential position of this plasmid near these chromosomal regions.
We did not detect any hotspot at ori5, suggesting that despite the evidence that DSBs occur at this position (Ling et al. 2011), it is not a preferential location at the genome-wide level.
First, we searched for all 6 base long motifs with a statistically significant preferential position within the 300 nucleotides upstream of the TSS and called these motifs the Preferentially Located Motifs (PLMs).
