The phrase "attributes that caused" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing specific characteristics or qualities that led to a particular outcome or effect.
Example: "The attributes that caused the project's success included strong leadership and effective communication."
Alternatives: "factors that led to" or "qualities that resulted in".
And can you imagine the personality attributes that cause someone to read a story about a massive intrusion into journalists' communications with their sources and have your first instinct be to attack the targeted journalists and defend the US government?
A 1999 Learjet crash that killed the professional golfer Payne Stewart and five others was attributed to cabin depressurisation that caused all aboard to lose consciousness.
The ice conditions were attributed to a mild winter that caused large numbers of icebergs to shift off the west coast of Greenland.
This was the poorest performing algorithm in our study possibly because the hospital admission is attributed to the underlying condition that caused the hyponatraemia (eg, congestive heart failure) rather than the hyponatraemia per se.
This algorithm demonstrated the lowest sensitivity among all the algorithms in our study, likely because the most responsible illness was attributed to the underlying problem that caused the hyperkalaemia rather than the hyperkalaemia itself.
This can be attributed that the higher temperatures might cause desorption of inhibitor molecule from metal surface.
Many studies have shown that particulate matter (PM) poses health risks, yet the attributes of PM that cause these effects remain uncertain.
Using direct numerical simulation results, this behavior is attributed to hydrodynamic mechanisms that cause circular particles to rotate and drift away from each other in a Newtonian fluid.
Cases of unresponsive pilots are unusual and often attributed to insufficient cabin pressurisation that causes the pilot to pass out, aviation safety expert John Goglia said.
We reasoned that some of the variation in Yan-YFP intensity that we observe could be attributed to the same factors that cause His2Av-mRFP variation —DNA ploidy and nuclear volume.
