"share certain traits" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe similarities or commonalities between two or more things, people, or ideas. Example: "Despite being from different backgrounds, the two sisters share certain traits, such as their love for music and adventurous spirits."
Trollope's ideal politicians share certain traits.
Character and actor share certain traits.
Though the two communities lead separate lives, they share certain traits.
These places, including Intermountain, share certain traits, like having a large number of doctors who receive fixed salaries rather than being paid piecemeal for each treatment.
Good vases for flowers tend to share certain traits: among them, a somewhat narrow neck, for holding flowers upright, and a largish bottom that provides a stable base and allows stems to branch outward.
The new Irish bars vary in aesthetics and visions, but they share certain traits, particularly more of a cultural underpinning and a more disparate audience than was true of the earlier renditions.
The study concluded that indeed hiring managers did hold implicit (meaning subconscious) biases that favored candidates who shared certain traits with the hiring manager.
For example, Jane Duran has examined the fiction of writers as different as the British novelist Margaret Drabble and the African-American writer Toni Cade Bambara to disclose how expressing embodied experience shares certain traits that are manifest quite differently when inflected by race, social position, and cultural legacy (Duran 2007).
Another Pew report from 2007 concluded, "In many ways, Muslim Americans seem like a mosaic of many other American groups, sharing certain traits with these other groups while not being identical to any of them.
" She added that she and her colleagues anticipated, and found, that the rates of birth defects among all infants in the study were higher than the national average, because the women shared certain traits, like maternal age, that have been tied to birth defects.
The General Linear Model (GLM) results showed that fire had a significant effect on the abundance of collembolans that shared certain trait combinations (sexually reproducing epiedaphic species), while the total collembolan abundance depended on the forest subregion, but not burning.
