The phrase "a benign effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a positive or harmless impact of something, often in a scientific or medical context.
Example: "The study found that the new medication had a benign effect on the patients' overall health."
Alternatives: "a positive effect" or "a harmless effect."
He has a benign effect on this collection of virtuosos.
FASB claims that the change will have a benign effect.
Are we to expect that moving people off welfare now will have a benign effect on their lives?
The simulation results show that improving engine propulsive efficiency is likely to have a benign effect on NOx emissions at high altitude; at sea-level conditions NOx emissions are particularly likely to reduce.
Ireland exported its own sectarian divisions to the New World; and the softening of Protestant-Catholic divisions in America, since the Kennedy era, has on balance had a benign effect on Ireland.
The seeds of the subprime crisis were sown, and the new techniques of securitisation allowed banks to make these loans and then offload them quickly.Initially, the growth of homeownership was seen as a benign effect of deregulation, as was the ability of consumers to borrow on their credit cards, a habit they took to enthusiastically.
"It's a fairly benign effect.
The action risks aggravating tensions over currency levels, but it could have a more benign effect.
In general it would be unfair to lump all nonnative species into the invasive category, because some nonnatives were food crops (with obvious economic and gastronomical benefits), some assisted agriculture, and some aided in the survival of native plants and animals, whereas others had a relatively benign effect on the environment.
7 Efavirenz had a less benign effect on serum lipids than rilpivirine after 48 weeks in treatment-naïve subjects in the THRIVE and ECHO studies. 2 This benefit continued to 96 weeks, 2, 5 with grade 3 4 laboratory abnormalities being significantly fewer in the rilpivirine arm (10.9% versus 17.6%, P ≤ 0.001).
In addition, a given gene variant may not only result in a missense change as being evaluated here, but may also impact splicing and translation of a gene product and thus be deleterious even when an apparently benign effect is expected.
