"common association" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to a close relationship between two things that are commonly associated with each other. For example, "The fact that most people associate the color green with money is a common association."
For colon cancer, which is associated with spondylitis through a common association with ulcerative colitis, mortality was increased by 30%.
The common association of subdivided left atrium with intracardiac, pulmonary venous and aortic anomalies is again demonstrated.
The book also interrogates the common association of women with magic, denaturalizing the gendered stereotype in the process.
Worldwide, rivers have a common association with industry – being the focus of settlement and development since the earliest civilisations with channel engineering a common practice.
The common association of ferns with shaded humid environments may, in part, be a direct evolutionary consequence of their inability to produce hydraulically optimized leaves.
We aimed to identify any common association of eNOS gene VNTR polymorphism with IS in Chinese Han population by capillary electrophoresis (CE).
Its blood-red colour and orange-yellow streak are characteristic, as is also its common association with black franklinite and white calcite.
Although soca is sometimes considered to be a subgenre of calypso owing to the historical relation between the musics and their common association with Carnival the two traditions differ in a number of notable respects.
In addition, despite the common association between twinning and strong shocks21, we find a transition from twinning to dislocation-slip-dominated plasticity at high pressure (more than 150 gigapascals), a regime that recovery experiments cannot accurately access.
Table 2 presents common association of dissimilar non-ferrous joints.
The most common association is with cleft palate (cleft palate lateral synechiae syndrome) [1, 3].
