The phrase "are likely to be spurious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the probability that something is false, misleading, or not genuine.
Example: "The results of the study are likely to be spurious due to the small sample size and lack of control variables."
Alternatives: "may be false" or "could be misleading."
The three associations are likely to be spurious results due to multiple significance testing.
Previous results using small samples that have suggested a parental origin of deletion effect on neuropsychiatric expression (22) are likely to be spurious.
We remove from further analysis those ORFs that were conserved in less than two non- cerevisiae species according to these criteria, since these are likely to be spurious ORFs [ 5].
Enriched annotations that were only present in one gene/protein within the pathway were excluded, as they are likely to be spurious and give a poor representation of the pathway's function.
Similarly, transition/transversion rate differences in intergenic regions are likely to be spurious; that is, apparent intergenic transition/transversion differences between F. heteroclitus lineages are due to just one mutation.
By resequencing a selection of putative SNPs from each peak, Wade et al. found that SNPs identified in the low SNP density regions are likely to be spurious, while those identified on the high SNP density regions are likely to be validated [ 27].
The claim by Clonaid to have cloned a human is likely to be spurious, but if it is not, there should be concern that the child will be mentally retarded or mentally ill, or both.
a The eight age groups were integrated into three as small number of newly birthed miRNAs has expression data, on which statistical analysis is likely to be spurious.
To account for this, NCG 4.0 reports a list of candidate cancer genes whose association with cancer is likely to be spurious owing to function, length and literature evidence.
In the case of genomic sequences, the lack of a signal peptide was interpreted to mean that the initial CLE motif hit was likely to be spurious and the sequence was not examined further.
The first is the annotation of possible false-positive cancer drivers, defined as candidate cancer genes inferred from large-scale screenings whose association with cancer is likely to be spurious.
