The phrase "ability to detect mutants" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to genetics, biology, or any field discussing the identification of variations or changes in organisms.
Example: "The research team focused on enhancing the ability to detect mutants in the plant species to improve crop resilience."
Alternatives: "capability to identify mutants" or "skill in detecting mutants".
Compared with Sanger sequencing, the PCR-based assays are rapid and more sensitive and have ability to detect a mutant EGFR sequence in small biopsy specimens containing less that 10% mutated DNA, including cell block samples [ 43].
PC2 and PC4 had a higher ability to detect the heteroclite mutants; of the 36 mutants, 32 (89%) were detected by PC2 or PC4 (Additional file 7: Figure S5B).
The test set quality is measured according to its ability to detect faults in the mutants [15].
The ability to detect significant changes in mutant abundance was not greatly affected when total read counts were more than 1000, and two-fold differences were still detected as statistically significant with total read depths as low as 100.
Our ability to detect variable amounts of mutant 908G ER-α in the presence of wild-type 908A ER-α was confirmed by sequencing PCR products from mixtures of these two variants (Fig. 1).
Last but not least, when using a 2-odor differential conditioning paradigm for neurogenetic analyses, one has to control for the mutants' ability to detect both odors.
It is also possible that the relatively high titers of HSV-2 needed to establish productive infection in C57BL/6 mice may promote an infiltrating cellular immune response through mechanisms not altered by the mutations made in our mutant strains, limiting our ability to detect any differences between viruses expressing wild-type or mutant gD.
Thus, histopathological estimates of tumor-cell content are not predictive of the frequency of mutant alleles, while the ability to detect mutations is limited by the allele frequency but not by the tumor cell content.
The PNA-clamped probe assay is more sensitive than direct sequencing, with the ability to detect mutations in samples containing less than 1% mutant alleles (Nagai et al, 2005; Pao and Ladanyi, 2007).
In our study, the prevalence of the dhfr/dhps quintuple mutant was similar in the two treatment arms, but our ability to detect an association between co-trimoxazole use and the dhfr/dhps quintuple mutant was limited by the virtual saturation of the quintuple mutant in the parasite population around Tororo.
