Two sample MR report


Telomere_length against aparc-a2009s lh volume S-oc-sup+transversal

Date: 22 April, 2022


Results from two sample MR:

method nsnp b se pval
MR Egger 23 -0.2240917 0.1036094 0.0422378
Weighted median 23 0.0434844 0.0581830 0.4548387
Inverse variance weighted 23 0.0255501 0.0455557 0.5748975
Simple mode 23 0.0017089 0.1108417 0.9878383
Weighted mode 23 0.0166914 0.0721042 0.8190740

Heterogeneity tests

method Q Q_df Q_pval
MR Egger 22.81408 21 0.3539707
Inverse variance weighted 30.25774 22 0.1123332

Test for directional horizontal pleiotropy

egger_intercept se pval
0.0153279 0.0058557 0.0160837

Test that the exposure is upstream of the outcome

snp_r2.exposure snp_r2.outcome correct_causal_direction steiger_pval
0.0357937 0.00093 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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