modifier

Example Sentences

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These genes are known as epigenetic modifier genes because they influence gene activity by adding chemical groups to DNA and altering its structure.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

He is concerned the severity modifier could make it harder to launch future cancer drugs.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

Lynch’s dystopian novel, which won the Booker Prize on Sunday, is at once so particularly Irish yet so universally familiar that it deserves the overused modifier “Kafkaesque.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023

My team also uses fruit flies to identify modifier genes and then test how they influence disease in neurons from patients with FTD or ALS.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2023

In the case of that in that boy, Miss Thistle- bottom got the function wrong, too: it’s determiner, not modifier.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker