The phrase "a secondary pattern of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a secondary or less prominent pattern within a larger context, such as in research, analysis, or description of trends.
Example: "The study revealed a secondary pattern of behavior that emerged under specific conditions."
Alternatives: "an additional pattern of" or "a supplementary pattern of".
Tumours were typed into primary growth pattern (representing 75% or more of the tumour or ∼60% of the tumour if a secondary pattern was present) and secondary pattern (representing ∼40% of the tumour) using the World Health Organization breast carcinoma classification with minor modifications (Page et al, 1987).
The interpretation of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) eigenvectors, known as multiple indices, may provide new insights into the main pathological models supporting primary or secondary patterns of WM disruption in AD, the retrogenesis, and Wallerian degeneration models, respectively.
Data were subsequently subjected to ASCA-gene analysis that combines ANOVA and multivariate methods to identify main and secondary patterns of gene expression associated with different experimental factors [ 34].
A secondary HIGM pattern of immunodeficiency can be seen with congenital rubella infection, malignancy or in patients on antiepileptic medication.
A secondary gain of the pattern, and perhaps one even more interesting, is the capability to take two exposures from the sensor at the same time, with nearly identical color data.
Some of the constructs showed a secondary set of expression patterns in a minority of T1 lines (Additional files 5 and 6); these patterns may be attributable to the sensitivity of the n1/n2GFP reporter constructs which potentially report low levels of endogenous gene transcription not detected using previous approaches.
An analysis of the secondary structure pattern of Evasin-1 depicted in Figure 2 has revealed no significant similarities with other known proteins.
The reported results indicate that a stable pattern of secondary currents over the entire channel width can only be sustained over a fixed horizontal bed if the bed's roughness is sufficient to provide the required transverse oscillations in the turbulent shear stresses.
In subalpine ecosystems during the Holocene, fire promoted a typical pattern of secondary succession (Figure 3) as predicted by the Eggler's initial floristic model [42].
These 42 patients with preexisting metastases showed a variable pattern of secondary spread.
