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. 2021 Jan 4;6:1. doi: 10.1038/s41539-020-00080-6

Table 5.

Results from two-sample summary-level Mendelian randomizationa.

Exposure and outcome GWAS Method N SNPs Betab SE p

Migraine80

Years of schooling63

Inverse variance weighted 29 −0.002 0.011 0.824
Weighted median 29 0.016 0.010 0.090
Weighted mode 29 0.018 0.011 0.113
MR Egger 29 −0.014 0.029 0.619
MR Egger—Intercept 29 0.001 0.002 0.654

Asthma79

Years of schooling63

Inverse variance weighted 8 −0.023 0.005 <0.0001
Weighted median 8 −0.018 0.007 0.009
Weighted mode 8 −0.013 0.014 0.396
MR Egger 8 −0.042 0.038 0.313
MR Egger—Intercept 8 0.003 0.005 0.632

BMI68

Years of schooling85

Inverse variance weighted 945 −0.158 0.010 <0.0001
Weighted median 945 −0.109 0.012 <0.0001
Weighted mode 945 −0.032 0.031 0.306
MR Egger 945 −0.042 0.028 0.137
MR Egger—Intercept 945 −0.002 0.000 0.000

aConducted in MR Base with the TwoSampleMR package. Details of GWAS used in Supplementary Table 3.

bBetas from Two-Sample MR represent change in the outcome (years of schooling) per unit increase in BMI, or per unit increase in log-odds of having asthma or migraine.