'contribute to causing' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that has an impact on an event, the outcome of a situation, or someone's behavior. For example, "Lack of sleep can contribute to causing anxiety."
In a case pitting the family of Michelle Cedillo, a severely autistic child, against the Department of Health and Human Services, the judge ruled that the Cedillos had "failed to demonstrate that thimerosal-containing vaccines can contribute to causing immune dysfunction, or that the M.M.R. vaccine can contribute to causing either autism or gastrointestinal dysfunction".
This is done in the context of illustrating how different values of the enhancement of both polar and radial perpendicular diffusion between the two hemispheres contribute to causing differences in radial intensities during solar minimum and moderate maximum conditions.
Electrical equipments should be designed, manufactured, and operated in such a way that if they are in a hazardous area they will not contribute to causing an explosion in several ways.
We know that it's a combination of genetic factors and environmental triggers, and fortunately over the past six or eight years we've learned a lot more about the genes that can contribute to causing lupus.
It is thought that activation of a pregnant mother's immune system such as from environmental toxicants or infection can contribute to causing autism through causing a disruption of brain development.
Exceptions were made for major mutations that directly contribute to causing resistance.
"Although not usually fatal, the condition can contribute to cause of death in frail or old people".
The reduction of TRAF2 levels may contribute to cause the observed cell cycle-dependent decrease of the TRAF2 GSTP1-1 complex.
"There is very little forest there anymore, and that has contributed to causing the landslides".
It is likely that abnormal maturation of RBCs reduced the functionality of these cells and thus contributed to causing hypoxia.
To determine whether microglial dysfunction caused by mSOD expression contributes to causing neurodegeneration in vivo, Boillee et al.
