The phrase "a propensity to develop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a tendency or inclination to grow or evolve in a particular way, often in a psychological, behavioral, or developmental context.
Example: "Children often exhibit a propensity to develop social skills through play and interaction with their peers."
Alternatives: "a tendency to grow" or "an inclination to evolve."
These mice were generated on a NOD background, which confers a propensity to develop autoimmune diabetes mellitus (DM).
Genetic loss of surface Fas antigen expression leads to reduced apoptosis of myeloid and lymphoid progenitor cells, and a propensity to develop autoimmunity and myeloid leukemia in mouse models.
Roche's Metcalfe suggests that tests will probably be used extensively in treating cancer in detecting patients who have a propensity to develop certain cancers, in choosing the right drugs to give them and in monitoring how they respond to that therapy.
WS patients exhibit graying and loss of hair, bilateral cataracts, atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus type II, osteoporosis, hypogonadism, and a propensity to develop sarcomas [1].
However, the mice injected with the dominant negative virions survived 30 days longer than control animals and might have a propensity to develop a higher number of vacuoles and/or larger vacuoles in their brain.
Cardiomyocytes have a propensity to develop pHi non-uniformity.
There is undoubtedly a propensity to developing antibodies to specific nuclear antigens in SLE.
Indeed, this strain has a weak propensity to develop adenosquamous mammary tumors at an advanced age [ 43].
Several studies have reported that at diagnosis of breast cancer, obese women exhibit an increase in lymph-node involvement and a higher propensity to develop distant metastases [ 4, 5].
However they do have a higher propensity to develop spontaneous cancer (mainly lymphomas and to a lesser extent solid tumours) at an average age of 12 months.
Wilkin (2001) suggested that three accelerators might be responsible: an impending β-cell death, insulin resistance, and a genetic propensity to develop β-cell autoimmunity [22].
