Sentence examples for putative question from inspiring English sources

The putative question before the Supreme Court is whether Aereo is violating the Copyright Act by putting on "public performances" without appropriate licensing.

There are also reasons to question the putative origin of geminivirus Rep from bacterial plasmids.

Highly complex correlations between HCEs and their putative target genes also question the idea that the primary function of HCEs is as cis-regulatory elements [ 24].

To address the question of putative relevance of Rho proteins in human carcinogenesis and tumour progression, we compared the expression of Rho GTPases in tumours from breast with that of normal tissue originating from the same individual.

First reports on splice variants for the human SILV gene [ 19] and a retroposon insertion in intron 10 of the canine SILV gene that seems to affect the correct splicing of the gene in merle dogs [ 12] raise the question whether putative splice variants of the SILV gene may be specifically involved in melanosome development.

In addition, Nabavi and associates' study (which focused on individuals with bipolar I disorder) did not address the important question of putative differential lifetime anxiety disorder comorbidity rates in people with bipolar I disorder compared to those with bipolar II disorder.

Thus, whereas the penetrance of the most common CFTR gene lesion, ΔPhe508 (rs113993960), in cystic fibrosis is very high, the penetrance of the CFTR Arg117His (rs78655421) mutation (in any allele combination) appears to be so low as to call into question its putative role as a pathological mutation (Thauvin-Robinet et al. 2009).

Reviewer comments: In this article that is appearing back to back with the article by Gonzalez et al., Beiles et al. address the same question, namely putative adaptive roles of TEs in the differentiation of Drosophila populations on the opposite slopes of the Evolutionary canyon on Mount Carmel.

For the gene in question, a putative orthologue of the D. melanogaster gene CG1909 found in D. erecta, the student annotated nine exons, including two short exons at the start of the gene that were not predicted by the four ab initio gene prediction algorithms used.

Since, pIN-JHE811 contains putative internalization motifs, we questioned whether such diminished surface labeling at steady-state compared to pIN-G, might reflect partial redistribution of pIN-JHE811 into the endocytic pathway.

"If it happens by chance that I fit one of the partial DNA profiles that the F.B.I. has in relation to the 1982 cyanide incident, then it will be not only to my advantage, but to the advantage of society in general, to resolve correctly the question of any putative connection between me and the cyanide incident," he wrote.