Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against aparc-a2009s lh area S-collat-transv-post

Date: 22 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 -0.0479914 0.0994063 0.6342465
Weighted median 23 0.0443118 0.0563521 0.4316694
Inverse variance weighted 23 0.0361475 0.0388455 0.3520889
Simple mode 23 0.1685428 0.1111373 0.1436242
Weighted mode 23 0.0701368 0.0706130 0.3313851

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 16.52568 21 0.7394265
Inverse variance weighted 17.37121 22 0.7425504

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
0.0051661 0.0056182 0.3682612

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.0005527 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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