Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against aparc-a2009s lh volume Lat-Fis-post

Date: 22 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 -0.0867725 0.1126774 0.4498194
Weighted median 23 -0.1109520 0.0607604 0.0678414
Inverse variance weighted 23 -0.0639386 0.0430686 0.1376562
Simple mode 23 -0.2064655 0.1038755 0.0594411
Weighted mode 23 -0.1671653 0.0861539 0.0652659

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 26.98218 21 0.1714438
Inverse variance weighted 27.04445 22 0.2095429

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
0.001402 0.0063683 0.8278779

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.0009016 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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