Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against aparc-DKTatlas lh volume middletemporal

Date: 22 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 -0.1306028 0.1021548 0.2150304
Weighted median 23 0.0147924 0.0558353 0.7910644
Inverse variance weighted 23 0.0252203 0.0414737 0.5431181
Simple mode 23 0.0263788 0.1139633 0.8190912
Weighted mode 23 -0.0336568 0.0755655 0.6603837

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 22.17807 21 0.3893112
Inverse variance weighted 25.07820 22 0.2933498

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
0.0095675 0.0057736 0.1123593

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.0007727 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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