A typical GWA study reports a few highly suspected signals, e.g. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which usually account for a tiny portion of overall genetic risks for the disease of interest.
By trapping lizards and snipping off a tiny portion of their tails for DNA analysis, researchers found that adult desert skinks live in the same burrow with multiple generations of their children.
The evidence-based pilot programs make up a tiny portion of federal spending, accounting for about $1.2 billion out of a $670 billion budget for nonmilitary discretionary programs in the 2011 fiscal year.
Chinese and Batak peoples each account for a tiny portion of the population.
Except for a tiny portion of its elite, North Korea's population is blocked from the Internet.
(North Korea keeps its people, except for a tiny portion of its elite, cut off from the Internet).
About 90m tonnes of animal waste is also produced in the UK each year, only a tiny portion of which is used for energy production.
Yet as Sang-Hun wrote, "Except for a tiny portion of its elite, North Korea's population is blocked from the Internet.
Russian weapons accounted for a tiny portion of the $4.3 billion American gun market last year, but Saiga sales rose far faster than the overall growth rate of 14 percent in 2011.
Savings banks account for a tiny portion of the country's financial industry, and the trouble at some of them has had little impact on the financial stability of the country.
Officials in China, of course, are fighting back, insisting that its food and other exports are safe and valuable, that new regulations are being put into place and that problem goods account for a tiny portion of all exports.
