Sentence examples for lesser specificity from inspiring English sources

The lack of correlation between the expression patterns in microarray and qRT-PCR in case of few genes in particular conditions, for example LOG in heat, LRK1 in drought etc., can be attributed to relatively lesser specificity of probes in microarray and array-platform bias (Lee et al. 2007).

A number of compounds have been designed to target RAF kinases at low concentrations, with greater or lesser specificity.

Application of the ACR/EULAR 2010 criteria in this international very early arthritis cohort demonstrated substantially increased sensitivity and somewhat lesser specificity compared the 'old' 1987 classification criteria.

However, these suffer from several shortcomings such as short half-life span, lesser fibrin specificity, higher therapeutic dose, allergic responses, substantial risk of bleeding complications and increased costs (Blann et al. 2002; Turpie et al. 2002).

This was the result of an improvement in both sensitivity and, to a lesser extent, specificity.

Sensitivity, and to a lesser degree specificity, proved to be a function of coverage.

The addition of FNA increased the accuracy of nodal staging to 93% largely by increasing the sensitivity and, to a lesser degree, specificity.

Several reports in other organisms have suggested that CRISPR/Cas9 shows lesser target specificity than other genome editing methods such as TALENs (Fu et al. 2013; Shen et al. 2014).

As previously discussed, the likely misclassification of several patients with an isolated positive RT-PCR result as disease-free suggests that the model overestimated Gram stain and culture sensitivity, and to a lesser extent, specificity.

While in our cases simple conjunctival swabs yielded the diagnosis, the approach likely would have lesser sensitivity and specificity than more invasive approaches; corneal scraping and/or conjunctival biopsy likely would be needed in some instances to make the diagnosis.

The most desirable contouring method for radiotherapy planning would have a sensitivity (and to a lesser degree, a specificity) close to 100%%, with a GTAOE/WTAH ratio close to 0%%.