Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against aparc-DKTatlas rh thickness middletemporal

Date: 22 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 -0.0918228 0.1086500 0.4075677
Weighted median 23 0.1367554 0.0570358 0.0164979
Inverse variance weighted 23 0.0882488 0.0445684 0.0476952
Simple mode 23 0.1369639 0.0950144 0.1635256
Weighted mode 23 0.1085004 0.0683233 0.1265458

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 25.08746 21 0.2433958
Inverse variance weighted 28.96034 22 0.1459967

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
0.0110563 0.0061406 0.0861603

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.0010339 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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