The phrase "alteration rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a preference for change or modification over something else, often in a comparative context.
Example: "In this project, we are focusing on alteration rather than replication to ensure originality."
Alternatives: "change instead of" or "modification over".
On a "fat-acceptance" e-mail list, several members suggested recent research will lead only to new ways for them to lose weight through genetic alteration, rather than be accepted as they are.
Scalia confessed, "You've really lost me when you say that it's nature that does the alteration rather than the scientist".
The IC values within fault zones have the highest potential utility for detecting the effects of comminution and alteration rather than for the estimation of paleotemperatures. 1) The IC values of the borehole core across the Nobeoka Thrust show a remarkable difference between the hanging wall and the footwall.
Therefore, some methods have been designed to specifically detect large regions affected by CN alteration rather than prioritize individual genes [ 19, 24].
Of the BRAF mutations detected by ARMS, five were determined by sequencing to be complex g.1798-1799GT>AA changes resulting in a BRAF p.V600K alteration, rather than the more common p.V600E (g.1799T>A).
These preliminary findings in anorectics and bulimics are suggestive of pituitary atrophy secondary to nutritional or endocrine alterations, rather than a primary pituitary pathology.
Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior, Graeme Swann, James Anderson and the form of captain Alastair Cook are all a concern, but I'd only be in favour of making one or two alterations rather than opting for sweeping changes.
Our results thus suggest the possible involvement in PE of CX3CL1 alterations (rather than CX3CR1).
These results suggested that the aberrant expression of RBPs was caused by genetic alterations rather than epigenetic alterations.
