The phrase "is causative of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that one thing causes or leads to another.
Example: "The increase in pollution is causative of various health issues in the population."
Alternatives: "is responsible for" or "leads to".
Through deficiency analysis, we argued that the presence of two surface catalytic sites during absorption-desorption of nitrogen (microscale) is causative of bistability (macroscale) in two of the three ammonia synthesis mechanisms here considered.
Recommendations included larger historical control databases, more pharmacokinetic studies in pregnant animals for dose setting and study interpretation, generation of mechanistic data to resolve questions about whether maternal toxicity is causative of developmental toxicity, and more rigorous specifications for what constitutes a chemical class.
As Scyl1 loss of function is causative of the neurodegenerative disease model mdf, our results link alterations in Golgi homeostasis to neurodegeneration.
Endothelial cells preferentially manifest 20-fold enrichment of a non-lysosomal secretory form of ASMase[9] that renders them particularly vulnerable to radiation-induced ASMase-mediated generation of the pro-apoptotic second messenger ceramide[10], and evidence indicates ceramide-mediated apoptosis is causative of the vascular component of tumor response to single dose radiotherapy[10].
The glutamate to lysine mutation at codon 200 (E200K) is causative of the majority of familial CJD cases, the proline to leucine mutation at codon 102 (P102L) for GSS and the aspartate to asparagine mutation at codon 178 (D178N) coupled with methionine at codon 129 for FFI [3] [7].
How do we prove that a mutation in a gene is causative of disease?
b)The Inquiry was faced with a complex task in order to determine whether corruption and collusion, racism or institutional lethargy had (alone or in combination) been causative of the seriously flawed initial investigation of the murder.
Some of the discoveries are related to faults that reached to sea bottom, which may have been causative of reduction in the seal risk of interpreted faults.
Previous studies of noradrenaline and dopamine infusions in sheep do not support that these agents were causative of the observed alterations in pulmonary pressures [43, 44].
Bigots are causative of who it is they hate, with the largest contributor to that creation being the unswept recesses of their own cowardly minds.
Nonetheless, disruption of its expression could still be causative of the phenotype.
