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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:55 pm
Hope has been brought to patients with breast cancers that are resistant to conventional chemotherapies; researchers have outlined a new set of studies for the treatment of breast cancer that is more comprehensive, focusing on multiple genes to identify several candidate therapeutic targets rather than profiling a single gene with the intention of targeting it alone.

A more comprehensive, focusing on multiple genes to identify several candidate therapeutic targets rather than profiling a single gene
B more comprehensive, focused on the identification of several candidate therapeutic targets from multiple genes and not of profiling a single gene
C comprehensive, more focused on the identification of several candidate therapeutic targets from multiple genes and not a single gene profiled
D comprehensive, focusing more on multiple genes to identify several candidate therapeutic targets rather than to a single gene profiled
E comprehensive, focusing more on multiple genes to identify several candidate therapeutic targets than profiling a single gene
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by gmat_perfect » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:17 am
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:Hope has been brought to patients with breast cancers that are resistant to conventional chemotherapies; researchers have outlined a new set of studies for the treatment of breast cancer that is more comprehensive, focusing on multiple genes to identify several candidate therapeutic targets rather than profiling a single gene with the intention of targeting it alone.

A more comprehensive, focusing on multiple genes to identify several candidate therapeutic targets rather than profiling a single gene
B more comprehensive, focused on the identification of several candidate therapeutic targets from multiple genes and not of profiling a single gene
C comprehensive, more focused on the identification of several candidate therapeutic targets from multiple genes and not a single gene profiled
D comprehensive, focusing more on multiple genes to identify several candidate therapeutic targets rather than to a single gene profiled
E comprehensive, focusing more on multiple genes to identify several candidate therapeutic targets than profiling a single gene
The skull of the sentence:

Researchers have outlined a new set of studies .....that is more comprehensive, focusing on X rather than profiling Y.

The issues:
1. New set of studies -------is more comprehensive.

--> This kills C, D, and E.

2. Focused on X and not on Y-could be correct, but the option B has used "focused on.....and not of..".

--> This kills B.

Answer is A.
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by gmatmachoman » Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:21 am
focusing... rather than... ........ -----p rofiling.... ( Parallelism is maintained along with comparison)

So we are left with A & E

Issue with E: Improer usage of "more" More is supposed to modify "comprehensive".

Pick A
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by ankurmit » Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:35 am
IMO A


A parallel structure.

@Pradeep, please post OA with explanation
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by reply2spg » Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:21 pm
IMO E.

A has idiom problem. More X than Y is correct and not more X rather than Y.

Rather than is itself an idiom, so we can not merge 2 idioms at a time.

I think this is same as one of the OG questions, I am not sure though. Please find the thread below.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/1000-sc-those-t55410.html
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by psychomath » Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:55 am
A is correct IMO
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by reply2spg » Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:07 am
What is the OA. Pradeep, could you mind posting OA on very next day?
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by karthikpandian19 » Wed Jul 25, 2012 4:43 pm
This is one of the difficult one.

OA is A

Those who go blindly with "more...than...." idiom fall for the trap here, as MORE is defined as a adverb describing "how competitive" rather than as a comparison word
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