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A DAG illustrates the causal structure between PGS, confounder (C), treatment (X) and outcome (Y). The PGS serves as an imperfect proxy variable for the confounder. The effects of the C on the exposure (X) and outcome (Y) are denoted as b CX and b CY , respectively. The true unconfounded effect of X on Y is b XY = 1.

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