Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against aparc-a2009s lh volume S-front-inf

Date: 22 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 -0.2049244 0.0994057 0.0518511
Weighted median 23 -0.0599186 0.0551558 0.2773235
Inverse variance weighted 23 -0.0086355 0.0406050 0.8315834
Simple mode 23 -0.0784546 0.1052002 0.4637042
Weighted mode 23 -0.0846767 0.0592067 0.1667128

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 19.43648 21 0.5571621
Inverse variance weighted 24.03834 22 0.3452227

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
0.0120521 0.0056182 0.0437868

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.0007299 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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