While SNP changes must be upstream (causal) of gene expression and phenotype manifestations, this does not preclude some SNPs from modifying the action of other SNPs, and the effect of such modifiers may become apparent only in particular contexts.
But the best cylinders, he thinks, would be tamperproof, preventing young paintballers from modifying their guns.
The Bush administration is working on a plan under which the government would absorb some of the losses resulting from modifying home loans.
Avi Shenkar, whose company, the GMA Modification Corporation in North Miami Beach, Fla., helps homeowners renegotiate mortgages, said loan servicers frequently argued that "investor guidelines" prevented them from modifying loan terms.
The most important is to mend an egregious flaw in the current bankruptcy law that prohibits the courts from modifying repayment terms of most mortgages on a primary home.
Restaurants that formerly banned customers from modifying menu items are playing a bit nicer and creating specials: the "Hard Times Happy Hour" just arrived at Lola's in West Hollywood.
Microsoft may not stop a computer maker that uses the Windows system from modifying its start-up sequence and desktop so that Microsoft icons, start-menu entries and other features are removed -- as long as users can get them back, if they want.
These included "Sit at the table"—literally, in the conference room, as well as metaphorically, in life and "Don't leave before you leave," by which she meant that women should refrain from modifying their career goals in anticipation of motherhood, and, instead, embrace—"lean in" to opportunity.
A warning may be all Apple needs to prevent people from modifying the iPhone.
Merged memory pages are tagged as read-only to prevent one owner from modifying them.
Jobs can be password protected to prevent other clients from modifying them.
