Sentence examples for majority of associations from inspiring English sources

Associations with traits where few gene variants with strong effects are reported, e.g. rs6107516 in the prion protein PRNP associated with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (OR = 38.5) or rs2071348 in the hemoglobin gene cluster at 11p15.4 associated with beta-thalassemia (OR = 4.33), are exceptions from the majority of associations displaying small ORs [ 33, 34].

South West Norfolk is in no way representative of the majority of associations.

It is certainly true that in the past, the majority of associations selected predominantly white men with 2.4 children and a labrador via a sophisticated interview technique fondly known to candidates as "death by canapé".

The majority of associations were of similar strength 1990 and 2008 (Table 5).

The majority of associations are probably attributable to specific mechanisms by which the virus escapes from HLA-restricted, HIV-specific CTLs, such as loss of peptide binding, loss of T-cell receptor recognition, and/or changes in peptide processing and presentation [1].

However, the vast majority of associations showed moderate effect sizes, reducing the likelihood that they were spurious.

The great majority of association studies in asthma (and other diseases) which have considered the ADRB2 as a candidate gene for risk, severity or other clinical phenotype, or as a pharmacogenomic locus, have utilized one or both of the nonsynonymous coding polymorphisms.

So far, the majority of association studies involving plasma miRNAs were disease-specific case-control analyses.

For both CMIP and ATP2C2, the majority of association came from the five-syllable nonwords (p = 0.016 and p = 6 × 10−4, respectively) (Table S2).

It is obvious that nowadays, the majority of association studies use preferentially SNPs as genetic markers, since their frequency in the genome is much higher and they are located at many more sites of interest than microsatellites.

A recurring feature of the GWAS data derived for common polygenic traits is that the majority of association signals do not alter gene-coding sequences but rather are located within non-coding or intergenic regions.