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. 2022 Sep 7;54(9):1332–1344. doi: 10.1038/s41588-022-01165-1

Table 2.

Bidirectional MR results for LST and MVPA during leisure time with BMI or body fat percentage using genome-wide summary results (CAUSE method)

Exposure Outcome Gammaa 95% CI P valueb Exposure Outcome Gammaa 95% CI P valueb
LST Body fat % 0.18 0.13 to 0.24 1.8 × 10−3 LST BMI 0.31 0.28 to 0.35 6.7 × 10−28
Body fat % LST 0.12 0.04 to 0.18 0.14 BMI LST 0.18 0.16 to 0.19 1.1 × 10−14
MVPA Body fat % −0.12 −0.20 to −0.04 0.07 MVPA BMI −0.14 −0.20 to −0.07 6.0 x 10−3
Body fat % MVPA −0.03 −0.09 to 0.02 0.53 BMI MVPA −0.09 −0.11 to −0.06 7.4 x 10−3
LST Comparative height at age 10 0.03 0.01 to 0.04 0.04 LST Comparative body size at age 10 0.02 0.01 to 0.03 0.04

aPosterior median of gamma, which can be taken as a point estimate of the causal effect. This estimate tends to be shrunk slightly toward zero compared with other methods. bThe P value for comparing the causal model with the sharing model. P < 0.05 indicates that posteriors estimated under the causal model predict the data significantly better than posteriors estimated under the sharing model.