Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against aparc-DKTatlas rh volume middletemporal

Date: 22 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 -0.1307798 0.0994032 0.2024751
Weighted median 23 0.0830562 0.0590520 0.1595781
Inverse variance weighted 23 0.0259554 0.0388447 0.5040169
Simple mode 23 0.1069952 0.1037223 0.3134885
Weighted mode 23 0.1069952 0.0969211 0.2815474

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 17.73397 21 0.6657716
Inverse variance weighted 20.66823 22 0.5413149

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
0.0096237 0.0056181 0.1014453

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.0006398 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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