The phrase "a distinct pattern was" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an observation or finding that indicates a specific trend or arrangement in data or behavior.
Example: "After analyzing the results, it became clear that a distinct pattern was emerging in the participants' responses."
Alternatives: "a clear pattern was" or "an evident pattern was".
A distinct pattern was observed for egl4, whose mRNA preferably accumulated in acidic conditions.
A distinct pattern was observed for genes that were regulated in the thyroid at 9 00, 12 00, and 15:00; the vast majority was strongly down-regulated at 9 00 and comparatively mildly up-regulated at later time points.
Instead, a distinct pattern was observed which denotes biological processes including endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation and chemotaxis in the tumor epithelium and angiogenesis in the tumor stroma that could be functionally different in African-American and European-American breast tumors (Figure 2).
A distinct pattern was observed with PGL341 170-GFP and PGL341 170-GFP–308-GFP constructs.
However, a distinct pattern was detected for disease-resistance-related traits, density, and CWAL.
A distinct pattern was therefore observed, with an age-related increase in expression of both Npr2 and Npr3 in diseased cartilage compared to non-diseased tissue.
A smaller distinct pattern was evident in the skin cell populations represented by 2,174 transcripts (Skin-only cluster).
A more distinct pattern was observed for N and P. As expected, total N and P concentrations decreased when the relevant ions were deficient in the nutrient solution.
White matter disruption in the fornices predicted associative memory performance across both groups, whereas a more distinct pattern was observed for the relationship between frontal disconnection and executive function in the two groups.
No distinct pattern was identified with monthly mean temperature.
From this multiple alignment, on which 767,738 sites without polymorphisms and 2189 distinct patterns were found, a tree was inferred by maximum likelihood using PhyML [ 48], with 100 bootstrap replicates.
