Fig. 1

Schematic diagram of IVW-MR and SMR. DR: Diabetic retinopathy; NPDR: Non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy; PDR: Proliferative diabetic retinopathy; SNPs: Single nucleotide polymorphisms; IVW-MR: Inverse-variance-weighted mendelian randomization. SMR: Summary-data-based Mendelian randomization