The phrase "affect the identity of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how certain factors or influences can change or shape someone's or something's identity.
Example: "The experiences we go through in life can significantly affect the identity of an individual."
Alternatives: "influence the identity of" or "shape the identity of".
While design alone can't solve the issues caused by Brexit, an aesthetic endorsed by a nation can affect the identity of its people.
The absence of Bmi1 did not affect the identity of the resulting tumor cells with respect to morphology and expression of a limited set of markers.
Although indiscriminate cross-breeding with exotic breeds is a major threat to the conservation of genetic resources, it is also evident that introgression of foreign material at such a low level in this case did not affect the identity of the breed.
There are other mutations within the BX-C that primarily affect the identity of single segment under the control of the BX-C.
Although such choices did not affect the identity of the 4 (stem) tissues showing the highest expression levels, they did affect the ranking of these different tissues.
Our goal was not to reconstruct evolutionary events over time, but to look at the power of duplication to affect the identity of the cell in specific biochemical terms.
Approaches to distributive justice seek to compensate for natural inequalities existing at birth among individuals of fixed identities, but considerations of justice are now implicated earlier, in decisions about the distribution of genetic characteristics, decisions which affect the identities of those born.
Works like Mourning Sickness, created nearly three decades after the first reported cases of AIDS, help to construct new narratives that explore how HIV/AIDS affect the identities of those who live with the virus currently.
Our results do not explain the final orientation of all rows of denticles, and one likely complication is that in late embryonic stages the Notch and EGFR signaling pathways affect the identities of cells within the denticle belt[12], [20], [21].
In this scenario, mrc1 deletion does not affect the identities of the origins or their initiation rate, but simply reduces the length of the typical region replicated between two initiation events.
Eliot often affected the identity of the "resident alien"; perhaps he came to feel that that label accurately described his relation to earthly existence as a whole.
