The phrase "as a potentially causative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing something that may have a causal effect or influence on another factor.
Example: "The study suggests that the increase in pollution levels acts as a potentially causative factor in the rise of respiratory diseases."
Alternatives: "as a possible cause" or "as a likely contributor".
Moreover, a recent integrative analysis of AD susceptibility factors in the context of the signaling networks and molecular mechanisms mediating Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology implicated persistent wound-like microenvironments/pockets as playing a potentially causative role in AD etiology [ 12].
Polyomavirus is emerging as a potential causative agent for genitourinary tract cancer in post-kidney transplant patients.
Sekhar, S. C. et al. Identification of caveolin-1 as a potential causative factor in the generation of trastuzumab resistance in breast cancer cells.
After filtering and exclusion of novel sequence variants found to be present in homozygous state in Kuwaiti controls, only a single likely deleterious variant remained as potentially causative.
In SAMP6 we detected a p.S540fs frame-shift mutation in the Il4ra gene, a mutation potentially causative of ulcerative colitis and osteoporosis.
While none of the previously noted snips appeared significant in schizophrenia, several CNVs emerged as potentially causative.
This comparative genomic approach identified eight genes as potentially causative genes for variations of health related traits.
The SNP sets harbouring rs7705526, rs13174814 and rs62329728 (SNP sets 1, 2 and 3), respectively, contain 12, 4 and 10 distinct SNPs, none of which could be excluded as potentially causative on the basis of statistical analysis.
Moreover, the importance of gene dosage in tumourigenesis is becoming increasingly recognised [ 1], and the widespread aneuploidy and copy-number variations (CNVs) that are the hallmarks of cancer cells are coming to be seen as potentially causative, rather than simply symptomatic [ 2- 4].
In this review we aim to provide an overview of the role of vitamin D status as both a marker of and potentially causative agent of hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease.
