The phrase "altered in a number" is not correct in English and lacks clarity.
It may be intended to describe something that has been changed or modified in various ways, but it needs rephrasing for proper usage.
Example: "The data was altered in a number of ways to improve accuracy."
Alternatives: "modified in several ways" or "changed in various aspects".
Or have my recollections been twisted by the passage of time?Cricketers have certainly altered in a number of respects since the mid-70s.
Individual Mediator subunits participate in regulation of gene expression by the estrogen and androgen receptors and are altered in a number of endocrine cancers, including breast and prostate cancer.
Expression levels of human MBNL2 are altered in a number of cancer types [1] and MBNL1 is upregulated in schizophrenia [2] and sporadic idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension [3].
EphA2 is implicated and functionally altered in a number of cancers and has potential roles in the regulation of cancer cell growth, survival, migration, invasion, and angiogenesis [16], [17], [18].
Chromosome 1 is recurrently altered in a number of human malignancies.
The positions G1.2 and C2.2 are altered in a number of sequences, but frequently these changes are compensatory mutations that sustain the Watson-Crick base pairing.
We tested coverage levels between 50 and 100%, and generated RME Modules such that the number of alterations matched the given coverage level, exclusivity was 100%, and each gene was altered in a random number of samples that exceeded the minimum threshold.
Consequently, the ablation strategy was altered in a substantial number of cases.
Thus, resistance patterns were altered in a large number of study participants (13 [29%] of 45), independent of antimicrobial treatment in the 1-year follow-up period.
The activity or expression of many signalling elements located upstream or downstream of mTOR is frequently altered in a large number of human neoplastic diseases.
Genes altered in a significant number of tumours (>25%) were considered for associations with disease-free survival though the cBioPortal software using the Kaplan Meier method with log rank testing with p < 0.05 taken to indicated statistical significance.
