Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against aparc-Desikan rh thickness middletemporal

Date: 22 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 -0.0972634 0.1010143 0.3465712
Weighted median 23 0.1208925 0.0574972 0.0355023
Inverse variance weighted 23 0.0813514 0.0418176 0.0517284
Simple mode 23 0.1339140 0.1020223 0.2028488
Weighted mode 23 0.0919519 0.0746017 0.2307458

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 21.68515 21 0.4178438
Inverse variance weighted 25.49561 22 0.2739662

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
0.0109669 0.0057091 0.0684174

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.0009055 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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