### Instruction:

Extract the cause and effect entities from the following sentence:
At the same time, the statistical distortion of the clustering pattern is a direct consequence of the growth of structure

### Assistant:

VARIABLE: the clustering pattern
KEYWORD: is a direct consequence of
CONDITION: the statistical distortion of
CAUSE_1: the growth of structur
EFFECT_1: the statistical distortion of the clustering pattern
NOT_RELEVANT: At the same time,

