The phrase "a potential source of variability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing factors that may cause differences or changes in a particular situation or outcome.
Example: "In our study, temperature fluctuations were identified as a potential source of variability in the results."
Alternatives: "a possible factor of variation" or "a likely cause of differences".
Owing to the potential for ambient temperature to affect energy homeostasis as well as adrenergic stress, both of which could contribute to biased outcomes in murine cancer models, housing temperature should be reported in all publications and considered as a potential source of variability in results between laboratories.
Similarly, a potential source of variability in the use of any volumetric method is the amount of adjacent enhancement (including meningeal scarring, blood vessels, choroid plexus, etc).
Second, a potential source of variability among transcriptome analyses derives from the technical manipulations employed to downregulate IKBKAP (presence of the FD mutation in its original context compared to WT IKBKAP knockdown using different interfering RNAs), resulting in differential residual IKBKAP/IKAP expression.
The precipitate depot represents a potential source of variability.
A factor is a potential source of variability in the relative prices and quantities (i.e. unit cost, number of surgical biopsies, radiotherapy sessions, etc).
In addition, incomplete release of vitamin D from VDBP has been identified as a potential source of variability for both manual and automated immunoassays [ 24].
The prolonged duration of action of this basal insulin is due to its slow dissolution of the precipitate which represents a potential source of its variability.
The intron sequence indeed provides a potential source of sequence variability: it is conceivable that intron extremities become integrated into coding sequences by shifting of the exon boundaries.
A significant potential source of variability in diet-tissue discrimination factors measured in this study was the use of gut contents to represent an individual's diet.
Future detailed studies should consider occupation as an important potential source of variability in biomarker data and possible explanation for observed disparities.
Township was examined as a potential source of cancer risk variability for the low-dose villages.
