Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against aparc-Desikan lh volume middletemporal

Date: 22 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 -0.1469396 0.0994052 0.1542004
Weighted median 23 0.0210756 0.0578610 0.7156749
Inverse variance weighted 23 0.0264065 0.0392185 0.5007448
Simple mode 23 0.1040348 0.1060523 0.3372698
Weighted mode 23 0.0148899 0.0788273 0.8519086

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 18.83590 21 0.5956664
Inverse variance weighted 22.42491 22 0.4347847

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
0.0106434 0.0056182 0.0720172

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.0006935 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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