The phrase "a preferred association" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a favored or desired connection or relationship between entities, such as people, organizations, or concepts.
Example: "In our study, we found that a preferred association between the two variables significantly influenced the outcome."
Alternatives: "a favored connection" or "a desired relationship".
In the simplest model, plants could assure the preferred association with mutualistic ants simply through a 'competition-based screening' that can occur both before and after the initial colonization process (Heil 2013).
It has been hypothesized that retrotransposons may accumulate in active centromeres because of favored integration into an epigenetically modified centromere environment, and not because of preferred association with CENH3 nucleosomes (Lamb et al. 2007; Wolfgruber et al. 2009).
PBIS would result if researchers investigate such a range of cutoffs but only report one cutoff/OR pair based on their preferred association.
Conversely, only large mineral spheres with no preferred association with collagen fibrils were observed in the absence of biomimetic analogues in the medium.
Aligning the S. purpuratus SECIS elements failed to identify any novel characteristics that might explain the preferred association with SBP2L.
Employing probes that cover all genes of a chromosome has also shown extensive intermingling of adjacent territories and indicated that these interactions often involve genes [ 44]. 3C-based studies have confirmed the presence of chromosome territories and the preferred association between certain sets of chromosomes.
The preferred association of PRC-repressed genes with RNAPII-S5p and not S2p was tested independently of ChIP assays by single-cell microscopy using immuno-cryoFISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization on ultrathin cryosections; Branco and Pombo, 2006), a high-spatial resolution, high-sensitivity imaging method.
Unfortunately, analysis of the genomic neighborhood shows no preferred association of COG4636+ members with any mobile genetic elements or particular gene families that could give us hints about the cellular processes they could be part of or suggest how their predicted nuclease activity could be inhibited or regulated.
There are 19 significant 'preferred' associations out of 78 correlations between health and community/health system characteristics (that is, almost 24%), while there are 18 significant 'not preferred' associations (that is, 23%).
Based on 208 correlations between healthcare and community/health system characteristics, there are 27 (13%) and 35 (17%) significant 'preferred' and 'not preferred' associations respectively.
