The phrase "are predicted to affect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing forecasts or expectations about the impact of certain factors or events on something else.
Example: "The changes in climate patterns are predicted to affect agricultural yields in the coming years."
Alternatives: "are expected to influence" or "are forecasted to impact".
Several of the novel mutations identified in this study that both lead to amino acid substitutions and are present in the compound heterozygous state, with other previously known variants, are predicted to affect protein function of podocin using two SNP prediction algorithms; Sorting Intolerant From Tolerant (SIFT) and Polymorphism Phenotyping (PolyPhen).
Increased precipitation and temperature variability as well as extreme events related to climate change are predicted to affect the availability and quality of water globally.
Additionally, the mill diameter and length are predicted to affect greatly the Peclet number, implying the importance of designing mill sizes for required product size distributions as the residence time distribution is dominated by the Peclet number.
Direct land cover change and disturbance from recent and expected development are predicted to affect 0.4% of the landscape across the basin; however, in the core Bakken development area, 2.3% of the landscape will be affected including 2.1% of the remaining grassland.
Storms forecast for the coming days are predicted to affect the west and southwest of the country.
The decrease in streamflow and the increase in temperature are predicted to affect the ground water abstraction and recharge.
The s595 polymorphism is a non-synonymous coding change in exon 21 (R791T) and is predicted to affect splicing regulation (FASTSNP prediction).
However, climate change is predicted to affect not only the amount but also the temporal distribution of rain.
Climate change is predicted to affect the frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as cyclones, hurricanes, and prolonged droughts.
This volume exclusion because of macromolecular crowding is predicted to affect both equilibrium and kinetic processes involving protein conformational changes.
The table to the right indicates how much these changes would be predicted to affect GDP growth based on the equation above.
