The phrase "an early factor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing elements or influences that played a significant role at an initial stage of a process or situation.
Example: "An early factor in the project's success was the team's ability to communicate effectively."
Alternatives: "a preliminary element" or "a primary influence".
An artery of travel used by Native Americans in their migrations and by fur traders, it was an early factor (preceding the Illinois and Michigan Canal) in Chicago's commercial growth.
Increased cerebral ICAM-1 expression may be an early factor involved in these pathogenic events [ 20].
However, nuclear staining was detected in borderline tumours suggesting that Snail1 might be an early factor in ovarian tumour development.
We aimed to explore the role of insulin sensitivity (Si) as an early factor of atherosclerosis in young type 1 diabetes vs. non-diabetic subjects.
Our observation that tissues from the age-matched controls contained a substantial number of plaques and some neurofibrillary tangles indicates that CAP37 may be an early factor in the disease process.
Plexin-B1 levels ranged from 15.00% in normal and benign ovarian tissues through 35.00% in borderline tumors to 55.00% in malignant ovarian tumors, suggesting that Plexin-B1 might be an early factor in ovarian serous tumor development.
We first show that per-word mixture analysis is a natural extension of an earlier factor model (specifically the Gamma-Poisson model).
The National Cancer Satisfaction Survey items had been chosen by an earlier factor analysis into nine themes each represented by one lead question, while five independent questions for one theme were averaged [ 13].
The group is focusing on drugs designed to dampen amyloid production or deposition, since this is a key early factor in the inherited form of the disease.
That is, testing whether anxiety (independent of shared genetic and environmental risk factors) is itself an early risk factor for depression.
Upon MW, IbNAC1, acting as an early transcriptional factor, functions in the JA signal pathway to regulate sporamin gene induction in the sweet potato leaf [ 55].
