The phrase "affects the pattern of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how one element influences or changes the arrangement or structure of another element.
Example: "The new policy affects the pattern of employee behavior in the workplace."
Alternatives: "influences the structure of" or "modifies the arrangement of".
Trade policy is not a driver of overall employment; it affects the pattern of jobs, rather than the total number.
In the present experiment, we examined how word discriminability affects the pattern of eye movements when reading unspaced text in an alphabetic language.
It is shown that tissue architecture affects the pattern of cancer dynamics and that unstable cancers spontaneously organize into a heterogeneous population of highly unstable cells.
The calculated electronic parameters involved in the activity of the benzimidazole derivatives confirmed that the position of the side chain in the benzimidazole moiety affects the pattern of activity.
The present study showed that the shape of the obstacles affects the pattern of the secondary vortex structure created, and the resulting drag force acting on the obstacle has a more direct effect on wake dissipation.
Patch degradation of the alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) induced by climate warming and anthropogenic activities affects the pattern of coupled water and heat cycling between the land surface and the atmosphere, which could positively feedback to the regional and global climate warming.
The part of population genetics that I'm interested in is how this distant relatedness affects the patterns of genetic variation we see in a population.
After a significant QTL for TPCs is identified, the next step is to test how this QTL affects the patterns of TPCs.
COBRA, another GPI-anchored protein, affects the patterning of cell wall microfibrils (Roudier et al. 2005).
In contrast, the direction of the net flux between f9SS and f10SS affects the patterns of response times among all disassembly modules.
The selection of different induction sites affects the patterning of cell fates in gall structure, possibly influencing its adaptive value to the gall inducers (Oliveira and Isaias 2009).
