Causal Effects of Genetically Predicted Cystatin C on Osteoporosis: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study

作者全名："Yuan, Jiaqin; Peng, Lipeng; Luan, Fujun; Li, Jie; Zhang, Jinglin; Jiang, Wei; Wang, Wenting"

作者地址："[Yuan, Jiaqin; Peng, Lipeng; Li, Jie; Jiang, Wei] Second Peoples Hosp Yibin, Dept Orthoped, Yibin, Peoples R China; [Yuan, Jiaqin; Peng, Lipeng; Li, Jie; Jiang, Wei] Sichuan Univ, Yibin Hosp, West China Hosp, Dept Orthoped, Yibin, Peoples R China; [Luan, Fujun] Chongqing Med Univ, Trauma Orthopaed, Yongchuan Hosp, Chongqing, Peoples R China; [Zhang, Jinglin] Chongqing Med Univ, Publ Hlth, Chongqing, Peoples R China; [Wang, Wenting] Hainan Med Univ, Affiliated Hosp 2, Dept Anesthesiol, Haikou, Peoples R China"

通信作者："Peng, LP (通讯作者)，Second Peoples Hosp Yibin, Dept Orthoped, Yibin, Peoples R China.; Peng, LP (通讯作者)，Sichuan Univ, Yibin Hosp, West China Hosp, Dept Orthoped, Yibin, Peoples R China.; Wang, WT (通讯作者)，Hainan Med Univ, Affiliated Hosp 2, Dept Anesthesiol, Haikou, Peoples R China."

来源：FRONTIERS IN GENETICS

ESI学科分类：MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS

WOS号：WOS:000801756800001

JCR分区：Q2

影响因子：3.7

年份：2022

卷号：13

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文献类型：Article

关键词：mendelian randomization; cystatin C; osteoporosis; genetics; bone mineral density

摘要："Objectives: Although it has long been reported that high levels of cystatin C could contribute to the development of osteoporosis in some studies, no evidence has established a causal association between them thus far.Methods: A Mendelian randomization (MR) study was conducted to determine the causal effect of cystatin C on osteoporosis based on public databases obtained from separately published genome-wide association studies (GWASs). The single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for cystatin C were extracted from the MR-Base (CKDGen, 33,152 participants), and the SNPs for osteoporosis were extracted from the United Kingdom Biobank project (United Kingdom Biobank, including 5,266 osteoporosis cases and 331,893 controls). We defined the odds ratio (OR) of IVW methods as the primary outcome. In addition, weighted median and MR-Egger regressions were used in the sensitivity analysis.Results: In IVW, we found that genetically predicted cystatin C was causally associated with the risk of osteoporosis with an OR of 1.02 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.003-1.025, p = 0.01]. In the further sensitivity analysis, weighted median regression also showed directionally similar estimates (OR = 1.02, 95% CI = 1.005-1.03, p = 0.005), and MR-Egger regression (OR = 1.02, 95% CI = 1.000-1.036, p = 0.15) revealed similar estimates but with lower precision. The funnel plot, MR-Egger intercept, and MR-PRESSO all indicate that no directional pleiotropic effect was observed.Conclusion: In conclusion, our MR study showed evidence of a causal association between serum cystatin C levels and osteoporosis, which also needs to be verified by studies with larger sample sizes in the future. Early monitoring of cystatin C may enable us to prevent osteoporosis-related diseases."

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