The phrase 'because of defects in' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to explain why something has occurred, or to point out a particular issue. For example, "The bridge needed to be repaired because of defects in its structure."
However, on the basis of our analyses of glands in other mutants (below), we propose that glands in sma-1 mutants are defective because of defects in pharyngeal muscle integrity rather than the smaller size of the pharynx.
31, 1987, because of defects in their stop lights and cruise control mechanisms.
Pain may be present in muscle disease because of defects in blood circulation, injury, or inflammation of the muscle.
Investigators have figured out that this disease occurs because of defects in a class of genes called mismatch-repair genes.
It is equally difficult to credit claims that communism failed only because of defects in the culture of the countries that adopted it.
Thus, failure to undergo apoptosis in response to anticancer therapy because of defects in death receptor pathways may result in resistance.
However, gamma-irradiation decreases the degree of graphitization of the nanotubes because of the generation of defects in the carbon atom lattice and produces an amorphous structure through knock-on displacements and sputtering of carbon atoms.
This is of particular interest because of the association of defects in the MAPK pathway with a variety of cancers.
In classic resistance syndromes such as pseudohypoparathyroidism, the first resistance syndrome to be described, resistance arose because of defects either in the receptor or in the receptor's intracellular machinery.
Four of these challenged the validity of the tax because of defects inhering in the nature or operation of the tax.
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) are a heterogeneous collection of clonal hematopoietic disorders that arise because of the defects in the control and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells and/or hematopoietic progenitor cells (HSCs/HPCs) (Malcovati and Nimer, 2008).
