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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

But Helen Knight, NICE’s director of medicines evaluation, argues that the severity modifier is working.

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

He seldom refers to coal without the modifiers “clean” and “beautiful.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

At the same time, management described customization as a $1 billion-a-year business, built on high-margin modifiers such as cold foam, milk alternatives, and protein add-ins that allow customers to personalize nearly every beverage.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

The new findings lay the foundation for a comprehensive investigation of the role of METTL16 in health and disease and are a step closer towards the development of therapeutic agents targeting such RNA modifiers.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

The main thrust of these accounts has been that suspensions do not work as behavior modifiers.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

Brittney is the kind of person for whom active verbs and modifiers were invented.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe