The phrase "altered in a number of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes or modifications that have occurred in various aspects or elements of something.
Example: "The design of the product has been altered in a number of ways to improve its functionality and user experience."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Consequently, the ablation strategy was altered in a substantial number of cases.
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.
