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Viewed in this context, one would predict that polycomb domain formation would not directly drive gene repression, but may instead function to limit stochastic or inappropriate reactivation of genes that have already been transcriptionally silenced.

However, gene knock-out studies in mice showed that FABP2 is not essential to dietary fat absorption but may instead function as a lipid-sensing component of energy homeostasis that alters energy balance and thus body mass in a gender-specific fashion [ 77].

While SL and karrikins might be precursors of the actual signaling molecules, thought to be generated by D14- and KAI2-catalyzed hydrolysis, the extremely low hydrolase activity and the apparent lack of signaling activity of GR24 hydrolytic products suggest that D14 and KAI2 may instead function as hormone receptors in analogy to GID1.

However, this interaction appears not to be required for the synaptic targeting of DNRX, but may instead be needed for proper synaptic function, possibly by regulating the synaptic vesicle cycling process.

Research consistently assumes that orphans acquire HIV primarily through sexual behavior, but infections may instead be due to maternal transmission.

These structures may instead have an ancillary function (e.g. enhancing signal efficacy or modifying information content).

To determine whether pLPFC function may instead be more consistent with a decision threshold account of the SAT, we examined whether its activity tracks a behavioral measure of decision performance, the decision criterion (c) of signal detection theory (see Methods).

However, a gene may instead acquire a new function after gene duplication.

While it is tempting to speculate that these inclusion bodies contribute significantly to cell death, there is some evidence suggesting aggresomes may instead provide a cytoprotective function by sequestering the toxic aggregated proteins (Tyedmers et al., 2010).

The factors that allow people to do so, which potentially includes ligament laxity, may instead contribute to impaired hand functioning and/or swelling as opposed to the "cracking" action itself.

One major motivation for the sEM algorithm is the fact that the deterministic EM algorithm cannot be guaranteed to converge to the global maximum of the likelihood function and may instead converge to a saddle point or local maximum of the likelihood function.