The phrase "a underlying role" is not correct.
It should be "an underlying role." You can use this phrase when discussing a fundamental or essential function that something plays in a particular context.
Example: "The research revealed that there is an underlying role of social factors in the development of mental health issues."
Alternatives: "a fundamental role" or "a basic role."
Induced stress by transportation and entrance to a new environment possibly played an underlying role in the virulence of the parasitic infection and associated tissue pathology.
Elevated IL-22 expression in the SF of PsA patients, a novel finding in our patients, suggests that the Th17 system may have an underlying role in both skin [ 20] and joint involvement.
Both the normal enzyme, known as ALAD1, and the variant enzyme function in heme biosynthesis and therefore play an underlying role in the formation of red blood cells.
We show that autonomic block can normalise HR in non-resonant LD housed mice, demonstrating an underlying role for inappropriate autonomic signalling during phase misalignment with the LD cycle.
For Benz, the 20th century suffragette plays an underlying role in his fall collection–"mirroring," he says, "the present political climate".
Finally, a non-trivial explanation may posit that these responses may be functionally, if not mechanistically, related to each other, due to an underlying role of species diversity and identity (de Mazancourt and Loreau 2000; Garibaldi et al. 2007).
Although we did not observe a significant correlation between soluble inhibitors of inflammatory cytokines in APS and WOMAC pain scores, they still may have played an underlying role in mediating the activity of APS.
This association became nonsignificant after adjustment for leptin, which may indicate an underlying role for leptin, or overall fat mass as expressed by leptin, to mediate this association.
These results suggest an underlying role for genes in specific clusters in potentiating age- and sex-related differences in susceptibility to adverse health effects.
Keeping in mind the fact that the experiences of patients and their families can play an underlying role in understanding this concept, and that the viewpoints and experiences of cancer patients regarding spirituality in Iran have not been studied, a better understanding of this issue in Iran is required.
