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The phrase "are disproportionately sensitive to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain groups or entities react more strongly than others to specific stimuli or situations.
Example: "Children are disproportionately sensitive to changes in their environment, which can affect their emotional well-being."
Alternatives: "are overly responsive to" or "are more reactive to".
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Thus, relative to single-genome studies, comparative studies are disproportionately sensitive to missing data and to the quality of the underlying annotations.
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A technical problem in the 19th century, for example, was that photographic emulsions were disproportionately sensitive to blue and violet light, resulting almost always in overexposed skies.
Secondly, an initial concern that we had was that Family Stream migrants might be disproportionately sensitive to the underlying economic environment, relative to other population subgroups (including Skill Stream migrants).
Newcomers, he said, are disproportionately vulnerable to compensation abuses.
Men are disproportionately employed in industries sensitive to early swings in the business cycle, like manufacturing and construction.
For one, while women have lost many jobs in the past three years, men lost far more jobs during the recession which officially started in December 2007, as men are disproportionately employed in industries sensitive to early swings in the business cycle, like manufacturing and construction.
They are disproportionately pricey compared to food.
Twitter users are disproportionately people of color, according to Pew Research Center.
Culture is disproportionately important to millennials.
The effect on weight was disproportionately due to fat mass.
"Supporters of trade with China and open markets have to become more sensitive to the anxieties caused by the pace of change, which unfortunately are disproportionately and inaccurately blamed on trade," said Gene Sperling, the White House economic adviser.
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