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ABSTRACT: Background
Neuroticism is a strong predictor for a variety of social and behavioral outcomes, but the etiology is still unknown. Our study aims to provide a comprehensive investigation of causal effects of serum metabolome phenotypes on risk of neuroticism using Mendelian randomization (MR) approaches.Methods
Genetic associations with 486 metabolic traits were utilized as exposures, and data from a large genome-wide association study of neuroticism were selected as outcome. For MR analysis, we used the standard inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method for primary MR analysis and 3 additional MR methods (MR-Egger, weighted median, and MR pleiotropy residual sum and outlier) for sensitivity analyses.Results
Our study identified 31 metabolites that might have causal effects on neuroticism. Of the 31 metabolites, uric acid and paraxanthine showed robustly significant association with neuroticism in all MR methods. Using single nucleotide polymorphisms as instrumental variables, a 1-SD increase in uric acid was associated with approximately 30% lower risk of neuroticism (OR: 0.77; 95% CI: 0.62-0.95; PIVW?=?0.0145), whereas a 1-SD increase in paraxanthine was associated with a 7% higher risk of neuroticism (OR: 1.07; 95% CI: 1.01-1.12; PIVW?=?.0145).Discussion
Our study suggested an increased level of uric acid was associated with lower risk of neuroticism, whereas paraxanthine showed the contrary effect. Our study provided novel insight by combining metabolomics with genomics to help understand the pathogenesis of neuroticism.
SUBMITTER: Qian L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7816676 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qian Li L Fan Yajuan Y Gao Fengjie F Zhao Binbin B Yan Bin B Wang Wei W Yang Jian J Ma Xiancang X
The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology 20210101 1
<h4>Background</h4>Neuroticism is a strong predictor for a variety of social and behavioral outcomes, but the etiology is still unknown. Our study aims to provide a comprehensive investigation of causal effects of serum metabolome phenotypes on risk of neuroticism using Mendelian randomization (MR) approaches.<h4>Methods</h4>Genetic associations with 486 metabolic traits were utilized as exposures, and data from a large genome-wide association study of neuroticism were selected as outcome. For M ...[more]