The phrase "a probable factor in" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing potential influences or causes related to a specific outcome or situation.
Example: "The lack of funding was identified as a probable factor in the project's failure."
Alternatives: "a likely contributor to" or "a possible influence on".
But the police said high speed was a probable factor in the accident, which occurred at 4 50 a.m. and involved no other moving vehicle.
(Where, oh where, our fleeting "post-racial" moment of Kumbaya?) I mentioned that timing was also a probable factor in this brouhaha.
A probable factor in the rise in identity theft in 2011, the report found, was an increase in reported data breaches, like those at Sony PlayStation and Epsilon.
A government decision to open over 80 Polish schools in Lithuania was a probable factor in the 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état.
Cite this article: Bone Joint Res 2014 3:203–11 It has long been acknowledged that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a probable factor in the onset and progression of osteoarthritis.
This GnRH disturbance is accompanied with an increase in follicular phase length and a decrease in luteal phase secretion in animal [ 5] and human [ 6]. High level of serum cortisol due to physiological stress induced by exercise can be a probable factor in suppression of gonadotropin pulsatility in female athletes [ 7, 8].
Another probable factor in increased eating is happier: the decline in smoking.
Probable factors in clinicopathological parameters and biomarkers were further calculated to predict OS.
Here, we noticed different probable factors in the three levels (DNA-m-RNA-Protein) that can explain evolutionary rate differences among AD, ID and IG genes.
Probable factors in clinicopathological parameters were then evaluated and biomarkers were evaluated to predict PFS for the 139 EOC patients (Table 3).
We previously identified oxidative stress as a probable causative factor in disruption of trafficking of small molecules through the astrocytic network in experimental diabetes (Gandhi et al., 2010), and amyloid-β exacerbates the generation of ROS in brain vascular endothelial cells (Burdo et al., 2009).
