The phrase "are almost specific" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that is not entirely specific but is close to being so.
Example: "The details provided in the report are almost specific enough to draw a clear conclusion."
Alternatives: "nearly precise" or "close to specific".
Some studies indicate that the diagnosis of adenomyosis is rare in adolescence [10] and features of classic adenomyosis are not typical [11], with cystic adenomyosis being almost specific to adolescent and young women [12].
A study from the USA has reported that S. Saintpaul was almost specific for turkey meat rather than chicken, beef and pork samples [ 11].
12 Human NEU3 has been found to be almost specific for gangliosides with hardly any action on glycoproteins, glycopeptides, or 4MU-NeuAc that are considered as good substrates for other sialidases in in vitro activity assays.
In addition to type II collagen, the second main component of the extracellular matrix of articular cartilage is aggrecan, which, like collagen type II, is almost specific to this tissue.
Using WhiB as a probe in one-way blastp searches of all the translated actinobacterial genomes, paralogues were sometimes very abundant: in an extreme case, Rhodococcus jostii possessed 30 wbl genes, all but five of them being almost specific to this organism or genus.
It is notable that, for all the posturing and yelling and press conferences about the debt ceiling and the budget, there are almost no specific proposals on the table.
Historical manifestations of sovereignty are almost always specific instances of this general definition.
As shown in the gene enrichment analysis, most genes in this signature are highly enriched in neutrophils and indeed many are almost completely specific to neutrophils.
Furthermore, two of the four clade II genes (OsGLR2.1 and OsGLR2.3) are almost root-specific in rice.
Figure 6 demonstrates that TCL1, TCLB1, TCLB2 are almost oocyte-specific genes.
