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. 2018 Jul 9;19(Suppl 7):195. doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2178-2

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Conditional independence graph representation for a class of Mendelian randomisation problems that does not violate Conditions (a), (b) and (c) in the main text. Here Z represents the instrumental variable(s), the symbol X represents an (intermediate) phenotype or exposure, Y represents the outcome, and U a set of imperfectly observed confounders of the relationship between exposure and outcome