The phrase "a common precursor to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that typically occurs before or leads to another event or condition.
Example: "Stress is often a common precursor to various health issues, including anxiety and depression."
Alternatives: "a frequent forerunner of" or "a typical antecedent to".
Wrinkling the nose has been shown to prevent pathogens from entering through the nasal cavity, and sticking out the tongue aids the expulsion of tainted food and is a common precursor to vomiting.
Thermal activity is a common precursor to explosive volcanic activity.
Abdominal flab in middle-aged rats causes insulin resistance, a common precursor to diabetes that afflicts old people disproportionately.
Acinar-ductal metaplasia (ADM) appears to be an important prerequisite for development of pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN), a common precursor to PDAC.
Network scanning – an attempt to enumerate and/or fingerprint hosts and services on some victim network – is a common precursor to an attack, and often has utility in post-incident forensics.
We also found that the seismic quiescence in a regional-scale area, detected by using the two methods of seismic quiescence evaluation, was a common precursor to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes and 2015 Off Satsuma Peninsula earthquake.
Alternatively, the introduction of IFS/CHI into these cells may have resulted in a depletion of naringenin, the common precursor to isoflavonoids and anthocyanins, and thus caused a reduced production and accumulation of anthocyanins which may, as a result of turnover, actually decrease in concentration.
COX-2 then catalyzes two reactions by which AA is transformed into PGH2, the common precursor to all prostanoids.
Although macrophages and DC may differentiate from a common precursor, their capacities to process and present antigen differ significantly.
Evaluating XCI skewing within a tissue can identify such clonal patterns of growth, as a 'patchiness' will occur during development in terms of which X is inactivated if cells positioned near each other descended from a common precursor cell subsequent to XCI.
Although it remains to be formally shown that a common precursor can give rise to liver and skin trNK cells but not other NK cell lineages, these data indicate that they are more related to each other than to other NK cell lineages, including cNK cells.
