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Biological and mediated pleiotropy
a) Biological pleiotropy: a variant or gene region affects depressive symptoms and smoking behavior.
b) Mediated pleiotropy: a variant or gene region affects depressive symptoms which in turn affect smoking behavior. As a result, an association is observed between the variant or gene region and both phenotypes.
