Sentence examples for small number of relatives from inspiring English sources

A small number of relatives declined to answer questions.

The 250 names included a small number of relatives, union leaders and elected officials; more than 50 lobbyists; and another 50 fund managers, placement agents and others who stood to gain from the city's pension funds.

For c.464C>T p. (P155L) the small number of relatives available precluded any strong inference.

The small number of relatives who were available to take part in this study meant the analysis could not be extended to make comparisons between individuals within different types of relationships.

By re-evaluation of the pedigrees, we found that the apparent lack of a family history might have been due to a small number of relatives and/or paternal transmission in these families.

Thus, despite the relatively small number of affected relatives with MM, strength and consistency of findings from this study and ours suggests a familial predisposition to MM, which is greater for Blacks than Whites.

A person was considered to be at risk from 1 January 1965 (prior to this cancer registration data were less reliable), or date of birth (whichever was later) to date of death, 31 August 1999 for flagged relatives, date of last contact for a small number of unflagged relatives, or 75th birthday (whichever was earliest).

Recent work on the HapMap data has revealed a small number of close relatives among these putative unrelateds (Pemberton et al. 2010).

Taken together, finding of the 1100delC and I157T variants in families with small numbers of affected relatives support the idea that CHEK2 variants are low-penetrance prostate cancer predisposition alleles that contribute significantly to familial clustering of prostate cancer at the population level, especially in families with small number of affected relatives.

The association of 1100delC mutation with families that include small number of affected relatives, the most common types of prostate cancer families, implies that the mutation is likely to have a significant contribution to familial prostate cancer at the population level.

Due to this relatively small number of tests (relative to a genome-wide study), HFCC was performed with only one group of cases and controls, and a chi-square cut-off of 6.64 (approximately a p-value = 0.01 with 1 degree of freedom).