Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against IDP SWI T2star left hippocampus

Date: 23 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 0.0792695 0.1024289 0.4476167
Weighted median 23 0.0346253 0.0590184 0.5574148
Inverse variance weighted 23 0.0311146 0.0400357 0.4370575
Simple mode 23 0.1230734 0.0971103 0.2182791
Weighted mode 23 0.0509139 0.0778841 0.5200712

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 13.56217 21 0.8876616
Inverse variance weighted 13.82305 22 0.9076404

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
-0.0029582 0.0057917 0.614846

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.0004372 TRUE 0

Note - R2 values are approximate


Forest plot of single SNP MR

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Comparison of results using different MR methods

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Funnel plot

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Leave-one-out sensitivity analysis

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