Other diseases are more subtle, affecting some people more than others, causing a range of symptoms.
Short-term exposure to large amounts of PCBs can cause liver damage; the effects of smaller concentrations can be more subtle, affecting the reproductive development of children of exposed mothers.
In the absence of major historical events this season — the sinking of the Titanic or World War I — you would focus on how more subtle developments affect the characters?
Therefore, any deleterious long-term effects of fetal glucose exposure on type 2 diabetes risk must be more subtle, possibly affecting fetal β-cell capacity or adipocyte distribution and function rather than overall adiposity.
Also these long lasting patients may be more subtle and differently affected than the acutely and severely affected patients.
Loss of Egfr function produces a much more subtle tracheal phenotype affecting tissue integrity.
Compared with the skipping of about one hundred exon nucleotides or the retention of several hundred intron nucleotides, A3Es and A5Es are thought to create more subtle changes, by affecting the choice of the 3'ss or 5'ss, respectively.
People who have an agreement to work one or two days from home are strongly encouraged to spend those days in the office — a more subtle "ban" that will affect their performance ratings.
Fronto-temporal dementia (FTD), or more subtle cognitive deficits may affect patients with ALS [ 27], with ubiquitinated inclusions in the dentate granule cells and neocortex [ 33].
Given the lack of a general effect of rank on male glucocorticoid output in this population, it may be that other more subtle or individual factors affect glucocorticoid levels of individual males, irrespective of rank.
