The phrase "are implicated in causing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the involvement of certain factors or entities in the process of causing an event or outcome, often in a negative context.
Example: "Several environmental pollutants are implicated in causing respiratory diseases among urban populations."
Alternatives: "are involved in leading to" or "play a role in producing".
Intestine-derived bacteria are implicated in causing systemic infection and in subsequent multiple organ dysfunction in both immunocompromised patients and patients with injury, such as burn and trauma.
We have investigated the biophysical properties of the two mutants, G118V and T109M, using in silico techniques, as these mutants are implicated in causing ALS based on clinical and pathologic evidence and experiments employing cellular and mouse models of ALS1,2,5,18,19,20.
Some of the oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes like PTEN and NF1 are implicated in causing hereditary cancer susceptibility syndromes overlap with those involved in autism [4, 6].
Androgens are implicated in causing scalp hair thinning in women.
Excessive inflammation following infection may cause tissue damage, and MMPs are implicated in causing this immunopathology.
High viral loads in HIV-1 infection are implicated in causing DC and T-cell functional impairment [ 8, 9].
Drayna said many more genes could be implicated in causing stuttering, but a better understanding of the biological basis of stuttering could help in the production of treatments.
At the same time, college campuses roiled with student and faculty protests over endowment investments in fossil fuel companies that were implicated in causing climate change.
Finally, mitochondrial DNA is highly susceptible to the damaging effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which have been implicated in causing DNA deletions22,23,24.
In particular, we focus on the chitinase/N-acetyl-d-glucosamine catabolic machinery of Sodalis which has previously been implicated in causing immune inhibition in tsetse.
