On any given day, almost one-fifth are absent.
If one third molar is congenitally absent, the frequency of other third molars also being congenitally absent is much greater than expected by chance.
A significant proportion of subhaplogroups in a Finnish data set, up to one third, are rare or absent outside Finland, a mtDNA component henceforth called "Finn-characteristic" lineages.
Indeed, in a series of patients with ATRA syndrome, leukocytosis was absent in one third of the patients.
This hypothesis was examined systematically in a combined manometric and radiographic study of proven cases of failed UES relaxation.5 In that study, the extent of opening of the nonrelaxing UES, which varied from normal (one third) to partial (one third) to absent (one third), correlated strongly with the degree of preservation of the pharyngeal swallow response.
Interestingly, while the interferon and granulopoiesis signatures are found in almost all SLE patients, the plasmablast signature is absent in approximately one third.
Furthermore, the BRCA1 protein is absent or present at very low levels in about one third of sporadic breast cancers.
At follow-up, degenerative changes were absent in nearly half of all patients, mild in one third, moderate in one tenth, and severe in none.
But, in the end, she made a kind of peace with her father, her first absent audience of one.
Albuminuria was absent in one-third of type 2 diabetic patients with chronic renal insufficiency according to the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey (14).
Protein expression of the PTEN gene, a target gene of miR-21[ 15], is absent in one-third of all CCC cases [ 16, 17].
