"contributed to causing" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when discussing something that was among the factors that caused something else to happen. For example: "The water shortage in the region was caused by a variety of factors, one of which was the prolonged drought that contributed to causing the crisis."
"There is very little forest there anymore, and that has contributed to causing the landslides".
The judge told McCormick as he sat impassive in the dock: "Your fraudulent conduct in selling so many useless devices for simply enormous profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent individuals".
Reductive dissolution of hydrous Fe oxides likely contributed to causing As concentrations in excess of the 0.13 μM MCL by releasing As not otherwise desorbable by phosphate, such as As occluded in Fe oxides, and by decreasing the solid-phase concentration of Fe oxides, which have a higher affinity for adsorption of As, especially As III), than other constituents of the coatings.
It is likely that abnormal maturation of RBCs reduced the functionality of these cells and thus contributed to causing hypoxia.
6.5 % were overly reassuring and 0.6 % would have said a BRCA2 mutation contributed to causing the breast cancer.
Inappropriate responses were "Reassure the patient that there is no hereditary cause for her breast cancer", "Explain BRCA2 mutation contributed to causing her breast cancer", and "Explain she has a BRCA2 mutation discuss risk reducing options".
Then, the quality characteristics which contributed to cause an out-of-control alarm are diagnosed.
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".
High blood pressure is preventable, and although there is no single cause, lifestyle factors such as smoking, obesity, a high salt intake and drinking alcohol excessively can contribute to causing high blood pressure.
Exceptions were made for major mutations that directly contribute to causing resistance.
To determine whether microglial dysfunction caused by mSOD expression contributes to causing neurodegeneration in vivo, Boillee et al.
