Although cells producing multiple hormones are present in the developing human pancreas, their relative abundance as a fraction of the hormone-positive population is minor [ 26].
The contribution of circulating progenitors to the microglial population is minor, or even absent, as shown in a mouse model of AD [ 50], pointing to in situ microglial proliferation as the mechanism regulating microglial turnover [ 57].
In S. lophyropoda, the contribution of clonality to the populations was minor.
These analyses indicate that the Iban are most similar to populations located in mainland Southeast Asia and Indonesia (Table 1; Table S7), suggesting that the genetic contribution of Taiwanese populations is minor.
However, despite philopatric larval dispersal and fission events in the species, no single population showed inbreeding, and the contribution of clonality to the population makeup was minor (only ca. 4%).
Below these population size thresholds, genetic erosion was minor or undetectable (Fig. 3-A.3/B.3).
Professor Oliver de Schutter, the United Nations Rapporteur for the Right to Food, says the reasons usually cited for high food prices -- demand for biofuels, China's increased appetite for meat, and the growing world population -- are minor catalysts.
When we compared the women who declined to participate (n=1202) with the 3529 women in the study population there were minor but significant differences in the ethnicity mix (79% v 87% white, 4% v 3% Maori or Pacific Islander, 11% v 7% Asian, 6% v 3% other, P<0.001) and age (mean 28.8 (SD 5.7) v 28.1 (SD 5.8), P=0.001).
As described above, this population is a minor subset in healthy individuals that is class switched and has undergone somatic hypermutation, but lacks the memory marker CD27 [ 45].
In healthy individuals, 8.6% ± 0.6 of the monocytes co-expressed CD56, with the majority of CD56+ monocytes being CD14bright (7.9% ± 0.5), while only a minor population was CD14dim (0.7% ± 0.1).
