The phrase "are thereby linked to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a connection or relationship that results from a previous action or statement.
Example: "The findings of this study are thereby linked to the previous research conducted in the field."
Alternatives: "are consequently connected to" or "are thus related to".
Lagos state is served by a main line of the Nigerian Railways (which has its central yards in Lagos city) and the trunk highway system; Ikorodu, Mushin, and Ikeja are thereby linked to Lagos city.
C5 compounds such as ethylmalonate, methylsuccinate, methylmalate, mesaconate, itaconate and citramalate or their CoA esters are thereby linked to the acetyl-CoA, propionyl-CoA, glyoxylate and pyruvate pools.
SPINK1 gene mutations are thought to diminish protection against prematurely activated trypsin, and are thereby linked to trypsin-related pancreatic injury [10], [15].
Risk of ischemic stroke is associated with elevated levels of vascular inflammation 118, 119 and lower 25(OH D 120, both of which are thereby linked to DBP.
Type II phosphatidylinositol 4-kinases (PI4KIIA and B) also associate with specific tetraspanins and are thereby linked to laminin-binding integrins (Refs 68, 85, 86).
The circular polarization is thus directly influenced by the composition and architecture of the photosynthetic macrodomains, and is thereby linked to photosynthetic functioning.
The center of the sheet is thereby linked to the transmembrane helix.
Data from health records at obstetric and infectious disease departments were thereby linked to civil registration numbers from women (18 45 years of age) who had positive or equivocal tests at the Statens Serum Institut for antibodies to C. burnetii during 2007 2011.
Consistent upregulation of miRNA-125b, and CDKN2A downregulation, thus associates with deregulated astroglial cell proliferation, and is thereby linked to the proliferation of astroglia in several diverse neurodegenerative conditions including AD, Down's syndrome and epileptogenesis, and in inflammatory glial cell proliferation in glioma and glioblastoma multiforme [ 57, 58, 83, 86, 87, 97- 110].
For each link in a chain is linked to by its neighbor (it is, so to speak, pierced by it); but it also thereby links to that neighbor (in being pierced by its neighbor it thereby pierces it).
The advantage of representing this using two separate recognized and defined entities is that they can thereby be linked to other annotations of these entities.
