Sentence examples for disproportionate frequency from inspiring English sources

Severe neural tube defects (NTDs) tend to occur with disproportionate frequency in areas of high prevalence.

A die with one or more faces each duplicated on its opposite side and certain numbers omitted will produce some numbers in disproportionate frequency and never produce certain others; for example, two dice marked respectively with duplicates of 3-4-5 and 1-5-6 can never produce combinations totaling 2, 3, 7, or 12, which are the only combinations with which one can lose in the game of craps.

First, the men that created the Kazakh Khanate could have possessed these lineages at a disproportionate frequency by chance, i.e. through a founder effect.

Desmoids are poorly-understood, locally aggressive, non-metastasizing fibromatoses that occur with disproportionate frequency in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP).

If this was the case and these individuals had a disproportionate frequency of shorter lengths of stay or re-admissions, then the results may be confounded in a direction away from the null.

For example, patients with estrogen receptor negative basal tumours may have received a more aggressive therapy because of their poorer prognosis, and it is known that BRCA1 carriers present with a disproportionate frequency of estrogen receptor negative basal tumours [ 10].

Although infrequent, these sexual motivations can have dramatic and sometimes tragic consequences that are disproportionate to their frequency.

Nevertheless the importance of inherited tumours in clinical practice and medical research is disproportionate to their frequency.

First, the elevated plastid rates are primarily driven by a disproportionate increase in the frequency of nonsynonymous substitutions (dN) with only a modest 2- or 3-fold change in synonymous divergence (dS).

If the clonally marked FSCs are mutant for a gene that is required for FSC maintenance in the niche, the marked FSCs will be rapidly lost, causing a disproportionate increase in the frequency of fully unmarked ovarioles.

Conversely, if the clonally marked FSCs contain a genetic modification that enhances their ability to occupy the niche or replace wildtype FSCs, unmarked FSCs will be preferentially lost, causing a disproportionate increase in the frequency of fully marked ovarioles.