The phrase "a set of alterations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple changes or modifications made to something, such as a document, design, or plan.
Example: "After reviewing the feedback, we implemented a set of alterations to improve the overall quality of the project."
Alternatives: "a series of modifications" or "a collection of changes".
Another hypothesis, more probable in our opinion, is that the genes influencing risk for GBC may as well comprise a set of alterations located within genes not related to each other.
The main quantity to be computed is the probability that a gene is a driver given a set of alterations.
On the other hand, we have found a set of alterations at the inversion breakpoints with potential adaptive significance, including novel genes and changes in structure and/or expression of adjacent genes.
A focus on loci and their associated genes whose AI frequencies are significantly different before and after preoperative treatment would permit the specification of a set of alterations that predict the sensitivity of a tumor to treatment.
Cytogenetic abnormalities and gene alterations in tumors co-occur with other abnormalities, and the complex state of molecular abnormalities in tumors makes it very difficult to settle on a set of alterations characteristic of classes of tumors.
In DL, the original signal (i.e., the aCGH sample) is approximated by a linear weighted combination of the atoms (i.e., a set of elementary alterations), which are the elements of a learned dictionary.
The results showed a set of genomic alterations characteristic to PCa, consisting of LOH and concomitant copy loss in large regions at chromosomes 6q, 8p, 10q, 13q and 16q.
In our opinion each cancer should have a signature with the description of a specific set of alterations.
The effects of IL-1 on vascular endothelium result in a complex set of alterations which are potentially disruptive of vessel wall and underlying tissue integrity.
It is possible to find common gene "markers" across different cancer types because of the observation that the majority of the cancers, if not all, undergo a common set of alterations [50] during oncogenesis, such as self-sufficiency in growth signals, insensitivity to antigrowth signals, evasion of apoptosis, and tissue invasion and metastasis.
The results from this analysis suggest that bladder SCCa shares a significant number of gene expression changes with conventional UCa, but also demonstrates an additional set of alterations that is unique to this entity that defines the squamous phenotype.
