The phrase "affect the pattern of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how one thing influences or changes the arrangement or structure of another.
Example: "The new policy is expected to affect the pattern of employee behavior in the workplace."
Alternatives: "influence the structure of" or "change the arrangement of".
Productions shorter than 200 ms or longer than 2500 ms were excluded as errors; their inclusion did not affect the pattern of significant results.
The change did little to affect the pattern of the match so Villas-Boas worked though his options.
The anions present also affect the pattern of UPD.
Overexpression of miRNA let-7a or downregulation of eIF4E2 did not affect the pattern of global mRNA translation (Fig. 4A).
Changing the height of the anterior hook (power arm) can also alter the whole biomechanics paradigm and greatly affect the pattern of teeth movement.
Additionally, differences in labor unions' transaction costs across companies and labor productivity among plants may affect the pattern of the bargaining.
Since basin topography should affect the pattern of the hydrology signal, the distortion of the hydrology signal may be caused by the non-isotropic Gaussian filter of L2013.
The weathering is recorded on the litho-log to go down to 9 m depth, but obviously does not affect the pattern of the gamma radiation.
Deletion of the intron, exons and 3′ flanking region did not affect the pattern of tendon expression in the limbs of E14.5 transgenic mice.
Experimentally altered developmental conditions, such as those obtained through MAM-induced microencephaly, did not drastically affect the pattern of Lot1 expression.
Environmental exposures such as cigarette smoke, alcohol, and nutrition affect the pattern of DNA methylation and expression of microRNA in ways that are highly personal and change over time.
