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Interpretation of High Levels of Pleiotropy in Particular Disease Classes
If there was a high level of pleiotropy in disease class A, all characteristics of genes associated with disease class A would be associated with pleiotropy (including, but not specifically, the characteristic leading to overrepresentation of disease class A in the pleiotropy category). Therefore, some gene characteristics could be associated with pleiotropy as a result of confounding.
