The phrase "an abnormal pattern of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a deviation from what is considered normal or typical in a specific context, such as behavior, data, or physical symptoms.
Example: "The study revealed an abnormal pattern of behavior among the participants, indicating potential psychological issues."
Alternatives: "an unusual trend of" or "a deviant pattern of".
In early 2010, the office found that one in five schools exhibited an abnormal pattern of erasure marks, in which a wrong answer had been corrected.
Migraine is characterized by reduced habituation of multimodal evoked potentials, which in turn reflects an abnormal pattern of cortical excitability.
This unique experiment revealed what the team described as an "abnormal pattern of moral judgment" in terrorists.
Limping is an abnormal pattern of locomotion caused by pain, weakness, or deformity and many conditions of the lower limb (hip, knee, ankle, foot) can present with this common clinical presentation.
A 2016 mammogram revealed atypical ductal hyperplasia, an abnormal pattern of cell growth that has some features of pre-cancer and can turn into it if left untreated.
The over-expression of ladybird also results in an abnormal pattern of dorsally located leg muscles, indicating different requirements for ladybird in dorsal versus ventral muscles.
The expression pattern of Actinodin 1 was completely disorganized at 4 dpa in fin regenerates treated with MGCD0103, compared with control fins, indicating an abnormal patterning of actinotrichial fibers.
All immunofluorescent co-labeling experiments included DAPI in the mounting medium (Vectashield, Vector) to clarify whether cellular profiles staining positive for apoptosis markers also showed condensation and clumping of nuclear chromatin, an abnormal pattern indicative of apoptotic cell death.
The FBXO7 R498X mutant displayed an abnormal pattern consisting of diffuse nuclear and cytosolic localization when overexpressed in HEK 293T cells (Figure 4D).
WAIS-R IQ did not reveal an abnormal pattern, although four of the five had weakness on the Digit Symbol subtest.
However, a reduction of the tinnitus-related global network activity cannot eliminate the tinnitus either if there is still an untreated abnormal pattern of spontaneous activity in the temporal cortex.
