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The phrase "are thought to affect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing beliefs or assumptions about the influence or impact of something on another thing.
Example: "These environmental factors are thought to affect the health of local wildlife populations."
Alternatives: "are believed to influence" or "are considered to impact".
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These differences are thought to affect timing of interhemispheric interactions and, in turn, functional hemispheric asymmetries.
Many different aspects of exercise are thought to affect how much we like working out.
The different polarities of the solvents are thought to affect different regions of the silk's molecular conformation.
The 'neonics' are thought to affect parts of the bee's brain where sensory information related to orientation is stored.
Macular carotenoid pigments composed of lutein and zeaxanthin are thought to affect the development of age-related maculopathy (ARM).
Housing conditions for dairy cows are thought to affect lameness, but almost no experimental work has addressed this link.
These measurements yielded local soot surface growth and oxidation rates, as well as local flame properties that are thought to affect these rates.
The symptoms can range from mild to severe and are thought to affect 1 in 15 Americans, women more than men.
Several factors such as dissolved minerals in seawater, mineral content, and pore size of sediments are thought to affect hydrate growth.
Preferred-orientation channel facies heterogeneities are thought to affect potential hydrocarbon recovery through their impact on permeability anisotropy within the confines of the channel.
Some A$2 billion will go towards mental-health problems, which are thought to affect nearly a third of Australians at some point.
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