The phrase "a putative relationship between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a presumed or assumed relationship that has not been definitively established or proven.
Example: "The study aims to explore a putative relationship between diet and mental health outcomes."
Alternatives: "an assumed relationship between" or "a presumed connection between".
We aimed to achieve accurate statistical modeling of a putative relationship between carotid endarterectomy (CEA) annual surgeon and hospital volume and in-hospital mortality.
The analyses led to the identification of a putative relationship between PXY/TDR and PXC1.
MIB duplicons with a slow evolutionary rate may shed light on a putative relationship between recombination and selective pressures occurring in the class I B region.
Taken together, the current scientific evidence in support of a putative relationship between vitamin D deficiency and migraine is largely unsubstantial.
In addition, we tested (3) whether a putative relationship between GHRL SNPs and metabolic effects was specific to individual AAP types.
A putative relationship between serotype and the frequency of septic shock was studied in a defined population in Southern Sweden (years 2006 2008).
Given that TRAF6 autoubiquitination requires a functional RING finger, these observations challenge the putative relationship between TRAF6 autoubiquitination and recruitment of the TAK1 signaling complex to TRAF6.
Nevertheless, it will be important to make a longer follow-up of our patients, to further corroborate the putative relationship between changes in T cells and the therapeutic effect of Rituximab.
In fact, the work reported here is a prelude to future psychopharmacological and patient studies, in which we will examine the putative relationship between individual differences in learning and attention (as encoded by our model parameters) and individual differences in neuromodulatory processes (as induced by medication, aging, or disease).
