The phrase "altering patterns" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes or modifications to established trends or behaviors.
Example: "The study focused on altering patterns of consumer behavior in response to new marketing strategies."
Alternatives: "changing trends" or "modifying behaviors".
Animal models, in vitro studies, and human cancer data suggest that arsenic may induce epigenetic alterations, specifically by altering patterns of DNA methylation.
Emerging data now suggest that arsenic may induce epigenetic alterations, specifically by altering patterns of DNA methylation (Reichard and Puga 2010; Ren et al. 2011).
Seafloor dredging creates the undersea equivalent of choking sandstorms, killing organisms, destroying coral reefs and other habitats, and altering patterns of water circulation.
Along with mindfulness, the treatment Brotto's supervisor devised for borderline personality uses cognitive therapy, which stresses altering patterns of thought to transform self-image and experience.
The highly managed nature of a city landscape provides biologists with some unique opportunities to understand both the role of humans in altering patterns of biological diversity and the role of behavior in limiting animal distributions.
In addition, the highly managed nature of a city landscape provides biologists with some unique opportunities to understand both the role of humans in altering patterns of biological diversity and the role of behavior in limiting animal distributions.
Human intervention has strongly altered patterns of river runoff.
Climate change may disrupt these fine-scale patterns and alter patterns at the landscape level.
For example, altered patterns of electrical activation lead primarily to electrical remodeling, without significant structural remodeling.
These altered patterns seem to relate to the closing down of essential brain circuits that, if they do not function in childhood, are probably inoperative later on.
The career of the Turkish writer Fatma Aliye shows how a combination of new institutions, technology and altered patterns of thought were changing society with a convulsive force.
