The phrase "a previous study describing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an earlier research work that provides details or findings on a specific topic.
Example: "A previous study describing the effects of climate change on marine life revealed significant declines in fish populations."
Alternatives: "an earlier study detailing" or "a prior study outlining".
A previous study describing a truncating mutation in BRCA2 in an FA-B cell line led to the suggestion that FANCB and BRCA2 were the same gene4.
So far, researchers have learned that different drugs create different patterns in the brain, says [Emery Brown, MD, PhD, co-author of a previous study describing what researchers know and don't know about anesthesia.] For example, propofol - one of the most widely-used anesthetics - is a very potent drug and initially puts the brain into a state of excitation.
This is in line with a previous study describing MPGES1 localization in synovial tissue [21].
The predominance of the latter is corroborated by a previous study describing the characterisation of this gene family [7].
The microarray data was downloaded from GEO (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) (accession number: GSE17108), the data was published in a previous study describing a transcriptome map in the chicken genome [11].
Together with the evidence from a previous study describing that PARylation also functions in telomere regulation [39], our data raise the possibility that PARylation functions as a regulatory machinery of the pronuclear envelope disassembly.
A previous study described the development of TAC for the detection of respiratory viral and bacterial pathogens; the assay was evaluated against well-characterized analytical materials and a limited collection of human clinical specimens.
A previous study described a subset of microtubules that are derived from the trans Golgi network that preferentially orient toward the leading edge of motile cells [23].
Using microarrays, a previous study described differential gene expression profiles of EHEC O157∶H7 in response to bacterial growth in the presence of erythrocytes [22].
A previous study described a low muscle mass in 39% of the patients with mCRC [ 8].
A previous study described that there are 69 genes unique to Salmonella [ 39].
