The phrase "mere consequence" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means something that is just an outcome or result of something else, without any significant importance or intention behind it. Example: The decision to cut funding for the arts was a mere consequence of the government's budget cuts.
Thus, the general increase in accessibility was not a mere consequence of transcription activation.
Whether somatic chromosomal alterations and aneuploidy are a driving force or a mere consequence of tumorigenesis remains controversial.
Even if the minimum was detected in several experiments, it was not highlighted or it was considered as a mere consequence of the scattering of experimental data.
This Review summarizes and discusses the evidence that metabolism is not a mere consequence of, but rather influential on stem cell fate.
They revealed a polymorphism of bulged-out residues showing clearly that their conformation is not a mere consequence of crystal packing.
For a new development agenda to be truly transformative, governments need to shift away from treating social issues as a mere consequence of economic growth.
Since 1991 the smart money has been on the hypothesis that the disease is caused by the plaques, and that the tangles are mere consequence.
The analysis of the parameter estimates shows that the so-called compensation effect is a mere consequence of parameter correlation, which can be easily removed through reparameterization of the Arrhenius equation.
Gravitation, in this line of thinking, is not a force the outcome of one object tugging on another, as described by Isaac Newton's equations but a mere consequence of geometry.
Notably, PcG targets were significantly less accessible than other inactive genes lacking H3K9me2 (P-value=2.2 × 10−16) (Fig. 5c), indicating that the reduced accessibility of the PcG targets is not a mere consequence of repressed transcription.
This suggests that transnational political activities cannot be seen as a mere consequence of migrants' present socioeconomic positions, but relate to migrants' long term plans.
