The phrase "appears to parallel" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that something seems to be similar or comparable to another thing.
Example: "The findings from the recent study appears to parallel those of previous research conducted in the same field."
Alternatives: "seems to align" or "appears to correspond".
A 2006 University of Toronto study found that avid readers of fiction were far more socially adept than avid readers of non-fiction: "Comprehending characters in a narrative fiction appears to parallel the comprehension of peers in the actual world, while the comprehension of expository non-fiction shares no such parallels".
My son's history appears to parallel William's.
Your research appears to parallel that of OpenAI; that is, to expand artificial intelligence into artificial general intelligence.
In humans, mRNA expression of hTERT (hEST2), the candidate telomerase catalytic subunit gene, appears to parallel the levels of telomerase enzyme activity, suggesting that induction of hTERT is necessary and perhaps sufficient for expression of telomerase activity in tumor cells.
This evidence is stunning confirmation of a case in which "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny," a notion popularized by German zoologist and evolutionist Ernst Haeckel, in which he postulated that the development of a feature appears to parallel its evolution.
Thus, the dual role of Tra protein in the tephritids appears to parallel that of Tra2 and RBP1.
Mr. Glenn's primary duty will be to act as a test subject for investigations of physiological changes from space flight that appear to parallel changes in aging humans.
These two aspects he calls 'homogeneity' and 'specificity' respectively (Ethical Studies, p.74), and they appear to parallel "coherent" and "comprehensive" as applied to a set of beliefs.
This early downregulation appeared to parallel the early desensitization of the channel demonstrated in the patch clamp studies (Figure 4).
The usage patterns of EASI and IGA appear to parallel with each other, which suggests researchers' preference for both scales as objective measures of AD.
Conclusions: Measured metabolite levels appeared to parallel decreasing DEHP exposure and increasing DiNP exposure during the study period.
