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Genetic pleiotropy
Genetic pleiotropy
In Mendelian randomization, the effect of the genetic variant on the outcome (association 3) is assumed to act solely via the "intermediate factor" (association 1). Any alternate pathway due to pleiotropy (denoted here by the dotted line) threatens this core assumption of the Mendelian randomization design.