The entity or characteristic A is causally upstream of the entity or characteristic B, A having an effect on B. An entity corresponds to any biological type of entity as long as a mass is measurable. A characteristic corresponds to a particular specificity of an entity (e.g., phenotype, shape, size).

Chris Mungall,Vasundra Touré

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro/docs/causal-relations

causally influences (entity-centric)