Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against aparc-Desikan lh thickness middletemporal

Date: 22 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 -0.0908595 0.1148563 0.4377463
Weighted median 23 0.0522189 0.0554679 0.3464862
Inverse variance weighted 23 0.0216407 0.0450176 0.6307176
Simple mode 23 0.0503778 0.0856247 0.5622852
Weighted mode 23 0.0365736 0.0618637 0.5604143

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 28.03516 21 0.1391570
Inverse variance weighted 29.54679 22 0.1299021

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
0.0069074 0.0064914 0.2993681

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.0009046 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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