The phrase "a sole marker of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is the only sign or indication of a particular quality or characteristic.
Example: "The presence of this specific gene is a sole marker of the disease, distinguishing it from other conditions."
Alternatives: "the only indicator of" or "a unique sign of".
In mammals, LC3 has been widely used as a sole marker of autophagy, and p62 degradation correlates with autophagic flux (Kabeya et al. 2000; Mizushima et al. 2010).
This far exceeds the milestone 4 threshold of 150 ultrasounds, though meeting that number as a sole marker of competence has already been questioned, and a more nuanced pathway towards competence has been published [9].
Another methodological issue regarding the interpretation of our findings is that a sole marker of HCV infection may lead to misclassification, owing to false positive results.
Measurement of Mtb-specific antigen induced responses in peripheral blood has been used often in recent times, however, most studies using this approach have only focused on IFN-γ as a sole marker of response.
On a more cautionary note, these results equally suggest that S100B can no longer be considered as a sole marker of astrocyte dysfunction in brain disease given its widespread distribution.
The challenge of identifying a sole marker to a tumor cell or virus is one that biologist and biochemist are still researching.
The widespread cellular expression of S100B and the lack of disease specificity for this protein [ 34, 49], has questioned if S100B is a sole marker for astrocytes [ 50].
Although cystatin C was independently associated with the presence of asymptomatic CAD,in the ROC analysis, the AUC for cystatin C falls into the range 0.6 0.7, which indicates the predictive value of cystatin as a sole marker was only moderate, and the cut-off value of 0.825 mg/L can not be categorized as ideal value to identify asymptomatic CAD effectively.
This is important because in the last three decades, we have witnessed a great number of "phylogeographic" studies using mtDNA as a sole marker [ 13, 14].
PCT is not sufficiently reliable to be the sole marker of sepsis, but would be useful as part of a full sepsis evaluation.
If you exercise regularly, you will lose weight but don't make it your sole marker of success.
