The phrase "and thereby cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that one action leads to a specific result or effect.
Example: "The heavy rainfall can lead to flooding, and thereby cause significant damage to infrastructure."
Alternatives: "and thus result in" or "and consequently lead to".
X-rays and nuclear radiation possess the energy required to alter genes and thereby cause cancer.
Extreme obesity also may severely impair pulmonary ventilation and thereby cause absolute polycythemia (pickwickian syndrome).
Extreme obesity also may severely impair pulmonary ventilation and thereby cause polycythemia (pickwickian syndrome).
Expecting prices to be lower in the future than they are at present means consumers defer purchases and thereby cause or prolong recessions.
What is more disgraceful than to make untrue statements with the intent to deceive, and thereby cause the death of even a single individual?
In addition, don't keep the smoothie in the fridge, because this can cause the banana to change its chemical composition and thereby cause stomach upsets.
Since genes are encoded by DNA, chemicals that mutate DNA — mutagens — can alter the growth-controlling genes and thereby cause cancer.
In other cases the site where a class II element is cut out of the genome is not repaired correctly, resulting in mutations that interfere with gene regulation and thereby cause cell dysfunction.
Babesiosis, also spelled babesiasis, also called piroplasmosis, any of a group of tick-borne diseases of humans and other animals caused by species of Babesia, protozoans that destroy red blood cells and thereby cause anemia.
Money doesn't get dumped on us and thereby cause inflation.
Acetylcholine interacts with endothelial muscarinic receptors to enhance nitric oxide (NO) release and thereby cause vasodilation.
