The phrase "affects the latter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing two previously mentioned subjects, where the second subject is impacted by an action or condition.
Example: "The new policy changes affect the latter, leading to significant improvements in efficiency."
Alternatives: "impacts the second" or "influences the latter part".
We show that rapid mixing experiments are better than chemical relaxation experiments, as the statistics of single molecule kinetics affects the latter more than the former.
As a part of irrigation project, India, in 1985, built Gajoldoba Barrage on Teesta River (at Gajoldoba, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal) that is commonly shared by both India and Bangladesh that seriously and adversely affects the latter particularly in agriculture and livelihoods.
To analyse how information to patients on their cardiovascular risk affects the latter's subsequent evolution and to see whether there are differences in the evolution of risk as a function of its being high, moderate, or low.
This means that the aggregate story either has contradictions (an interpretation implicit in Ref. [12]), or that there are some event A that is so long in duration that it can affect an event B that subsequently (directly or indirectly) affects the latter stages of A. Disambiguating this issue is beyond the scope of this paper.
The environment is returned to being the enemy of growth (as if the loss of the former would never affect the latter).
The first half of this year has seen levels of punctuality not achieved by any operator of the east coast mainline "since records in their current form began", although poor weather affected the latter part of last year.
One thing that is clear is that the uptick in D.C.I.S. and early-stage cancer diagnoses has not significantly changed late-stage cancer statistics, so if the whole point is to affect the latter that's not happening.
The former will affect the latter.
Neutral reasons underlie the former; but relative reasons can affect the latter" (Nagel 1986: 165).
Light interaction with QDs can affect the latter in different ways.
The hydrothermal temperature significantly affected the latter two when the Cu content in the Cu,N-CDs was changed.
