The phrase "are overrepresented in the list of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the disproportionate presence of certain items, groups, or categories within a specific list or dataset.
Example: "Certain demographics are overrepresented in the list of applicants for the scholarship program."
Alternatives: "are disproportionately represented in the list of" or "have a higher presence in the list of".
CREB elements (consensus sequence: TGACGT) are overrepresented in the list of all CCGs (with the z-score of 5.65) and appear as overrepresented in all tissue-specific motif lists (Table 1).
Interestingly, genes belonging to 'phosphoinositide 3-kinase binding' and 'Rho guanyl-nucleotide exchange factor activity', molecular functions implicated in respectively PI3K signalling and Rho GTPase activation, are overrepresented in the list of commonly overexpressed genes.
Some biological Panther processes are overrepresented in the lists of genes with a fold change >1.5 in both VAT and SAT (p < 0.05 after Bonferroni correction).
IPA found members of the TR/RXR pathway to be overrepresented in the list of differentially expressed genes in each tissue.
For example, the ontology categories that were overrepresented in the list of transcripts enriched in the nucleus included the cell cycle and the ubiquitin cycle.
After selection of a list of differentially expressed gene, the list is then examined with biologically predefined gene sets to determine whether any sets are overrepresented in the list compared with the whole list ([ 1– 3]).
Only one type of genes was overrepresented in the list namely, immune related genes.
Genes with a biological function involved in immune response (*, GO 0006955) were overrepresented in the list (p-value < 0.01).
As shown in Figure 7, most of the significant genes (p-value close to 0) in the constructed networks are overrepresented in the compiled list.
Boys are overrepresented in the top 1percentt of math achievers, but there are also more of them at the bottom.
Indigenous Australians are overrepresented in the prison system and experience higher rates of cancer mortality.
