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Diagram of MR principles and assumptions. Assumption 1: The genetic instruments must be robustly associated with the alleged biomarker of interest. Assumption 2: The genetic instruments must be associated with the outcome only via the exposure and not via a different biological pathway independent of the exposure. Assumption 3: The genetic instruments are not associated with any confounders of the exposure–outcome relationship.
