relative expression

collocation in English

meaningsofrelativeandexpression

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relative
adjective
uk
/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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expression
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/us
/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition ofrelativeandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrelative expression

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That is, the x-axis is arelativeexpressionof duration.
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Then, if these effects are present, they will lead to biased estimates ofrelativeexpressionand misleading results.
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Clearly, this distribution is reflective of therelativeexpressionof individual mitochondrial transcripts in the sample.
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A greaterrelativeexpressionof both bands was seen in the wild-type testa as compared to the mutant testa on all days of analysis.
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The transcripts for both these genes showed similarrelativeexpressionpatterns in the two genotypes.
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Confidence intervals on the estimates ofrelativeexpressionserve as a gauge for which changes in expression should be regarded as ' real ' and which changes are attributable to noise.
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The increase inrelativeexpressionwas 3.8-fold 60.1 for blue cone opsin, 24.8fold 60.4 for green cone opsin, and 23.3-fold 64.9 for red cone opsin.
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In order to detect such genes, scientists need statistically designed experiments and data analyses that not only produce estimates ofrelativeexpressionbut, in addition, error bars for those estimates.
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Therelativeexpressionof these myosin types is determined partly by genetics and partly by other biological factors such as activity, innervation and hormones.
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Directly targeting endogenous transcription should yield correctrelativeexpressionof splice variants.
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Transcriptome profiling is determining the composition of transcripts and theirrelativeexpressionlevels in a given reference set of cells.
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The ratio of the two homologous proteins in the complex depends on therelativeexpressionlevels of the two genes.
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