The phrase "a weak pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a pattern that lacks strength, effectiveness, or clarity in various contexts, such as analysis, design, or behavior.
Example: "The data revealed a weak pattern in consumer preferences, indicating that further research is needed to understand the market."
Alternatives: "a feeble pattern" or "an ineffective pattern".
Conversely, the stromal cells showed a weak pattern of staining at mRNA and protein levels.
A weak pattern of isolation by distance was detected when all populations were considered together (r = 0.14, P = 0.051, Mantel test, Additional file 4: Figure S3).
HPDs for diallel effects from the MIMP estimator (File S1) mostly settle around zero, but there is a weak pattern of B6 epistasis with other strains (including PWK, NZO, and WSB).
Using only one sequence per genus may reduce the power of the test, which may obscure a weak pattern; but using only one randomly selected species per sister lineage is unlikely to generate any systematic biases in rates, making this approach conservative for testing an association between rates of molecular evolution and net diversification (see [ 8, 11]).
The second round of selection would help to recover profiles with a weaker pattern, which would have been randomly ordered by hierarchical clustering.
In this study, the thermophilic reactor reveals a clear evolution of the bacterial community (Fig. 8a), whereas the archaeal community in the same reactor showed a weaker pattern of evolution.
These are related to oxidative damage and anaemia (total serum iron and the CHr measurement that is closely linked (Mast, 2002), with a weaker pattern) or to metabolism and robustness (thyroxine, BMI, as well as heart rate with a signal at 6 M; M = months).
ERα protein is indeed expressed in both normal mucosa (38.3%) and gastric tumors (12.0%) but with a very weak pattern, while ERβ protein is the predominant isoform of ER in both normal (97.3%) and cancerous (91.9%) tissues.
We found an overall (albeit weak) pattern of isolation-by-distance, suggesting that regional introductions occur in a relatively stepwise manner.
This does occur in the Buetfering paper Figure 4A, but there are also a few with a weak periodic pattern (lower right panel of Figure 4A, grid score 0.18).
The probes designed for the introns showed three patterns: a strong smear pattern (introns 1 and 2 of SlAP3X and introns 1 and 4 of SlAP3Y); a weak smear pattern (intron 3, 4, and 5 of SlAP3X and introns 3 of SlAP3Y); and a multiple-banded pattern (introns 5 and 6 of SlAP3Y).
