Sentence examples for families lacking from inspiring English sources

Subsequent population-based studies have shown that a recurrent loss of function CHEK2 mutant, CHEK21100delC is present in approximately 1% of the population and in 5% of familial breast cancer families lacking a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation (Meijers-Heijboer et al, 2002; Fernandez-Novoa et al, 2004).

Many families, lacking a successor, wanted to sell.

Douthat and Salam are cultural conservatives — Douthat became a Pentecostal and then a Catholic in his teens — but they readily acknowledge the economic forces that contribute to the breakdown of families lacking the "social capital" of a college degree.

But a more immediate discussion, and perhaps a more helpful one, would be to address how Alzheimer's patients and their families, lacking effective treatments, deal with the grueling realities of the disease over time.

But that aspiration runs counter to a central tenet of the Bloomberg administration's education philosophy: that giving certain students an advantage threatens to further splinter the sprawling system by class, leaving families lacking savvy and resources to attend some of the worst schools.

For instance, when the researchers removed the possible confounding influence of ApoE4 by looking only at families lacking that ApoE variant, they found that the frequency of the mutant A2M gene in Alzheimer's patients was four times greater than in their siblings who did not have the disease.

Nearly half of all parents in working-poor families lack health insurance.

In some settlements Roma families lacked (and continue to lack) electricity, running water or sewage systems.

In other words, it is not unfair to say that modern families lack the structure and security they once did.

Among the Navajo nation, the country's largest tribe, more than 20,000 families lack their own homes.

But in rural Paraguay, where an estimated 300,000 or more families lack adequate homes, it is finding a new use as a low-cost construction material.