The phrase "a mixture of traits" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a combination of different characteristics or qualities that someone or something possesses.
Example: "Her personality is a mixture of traits that make her both approachable and authoritative."
Alternatives: "a blend of characteristics" or "a combination of qualities."
Lanier was technologically precocious, as well as artistically minded, a mixture of traits that his father tried to nurture by giving him books about Buckminster Fuller.
The animal seemed to exhibit a mixture of traits from early birds and their dinosaur predecessors, fitting within the pattern of authentic feathered dinosaurs that were just beginning to be described in the peer-reviewed literature.
Most organisms are not just paedomorphic or peramorphic but a mixture of traits that evolved by both peramorphic and paedomorphic processes.
Multivariate BLUPs can be derived when data are a mixture of continuous traits and observed discrete traits controlled by logistic latent traits.
To symbolise the spiritual connection he had found in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of human traits into a synthesizer and used it as the main backing instrument throughout the song.
A good functional group will have a mixture of complementary traits (e.g., a balance of cooperative people and free-riders: a negative frequency dependency process).
In the face of such a peculiar mixture of traits vetulicolians have, at different times, been affiliated with lobopodians, arthropods, kinorhynchs and deuterostomes.
The Maudsley Bethlem study also hypothesized that schizophrenia was caused by a mixture of many small traits working together.
A multivariate phenotype y) is defined as bivariate traits (yi, yj) which can be a mixture of continuous and nominal traits.
It is much easier to wrestle with biological complexity from the perspective that all organisms are a mixture of older and newer traits where only a handful might be (or even have been) beneficial, despite our impulses to provide an adaptive explanation for everything.
Liu et al. suggested an extension of the GEE to test association analysis for a mixture of continuous and binary traits [ 11].
