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Relationship between Serum 25(OH)D and Depression: Causal Evidence from a Bi-Directional Mendelian Randomization Study.

ABSTRACT: The relationship between depression and vitamin D deficiency is complex, with evidence mostly from studies affected by confounding and reverse causality. We examined the causality and direction of the relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and depression in bi-directional Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses using information from up to 307,618 white British participants from the UK Biobank and summary results from the SUNLIGHT (n = 79,366) and Psychiatric Genomics consortia (PGC 113,154 cases and 218,523 controls). In observational analysis, the odds of depression decreased with higher 25(OH)D concentrations (adjusted odds ratio (OR) per 50% increase 0.95, 95%CI 0.94-0.96). In MR inverse variance weighted (IVW) using the UK Biobank, there was no association between genetically determined serum 25(OH)D and depression (OR per 50% higher 0.97, 95%CI 0.90-1.05) with consistent null association across all MR approaches and in data from PGC consortium. In contrast, genetic liability to depression was associated with lower 25(OH)D concentrations (MR IVW -3.26%, -4.94%--1.55%), with the estimates remaining generally consistent after meta-analysing with the consortia. In conclusion, we found genetic evidence for a causal effect of depression on lower 25(OH)D concentrations, however we could not confirm a beneficial effect of nutritional vitamin D status on depression risk.

SUBMITTER: Mulugeta A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7823924 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Relationship between Serum 25(OH)D and Depression: Causal Evidence from a Bi-Directional Mendelian Randomization Study.

Mulugeta Anwar A Lumsden Amanda A Hyppönen Elina E

Nutrients 20201230 1

The relationship between depression and vitamin D deficiency is complex, with evidence mostly from studies affected by confounding and reverse causality. We examined the causality and direction of the relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and depression in bi-directional Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses using information from up to 307,618 white British participants from the UK Biobank and summary results from the SUNLIGHT (<i>n</i> = 79,366) and Psychiatric Genomics consortia ...[more]

PMID: 33396887

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Project description:BackgroundPrevious studies have shown that osteoarthritis (OA) and sarcopenia (SP) are closely related to each other, but the causal relationships between them have not been established. The aim of this study was to investigate the causal associations between OA and SP via a bi-directional Mendelian randomization (MR) approach.MethodsA bi-directional two-sample MR was adopted to research the causal relationship between SP and OA. The instrumental variables for SP and four types of OA: KOA, HOA, total knee replacement (TKR) and total hip replacement (THR) were derived from published large genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The inverse variance weighted (IVW), MR-Egger and weighted median estimator (WME) methods were used to estimate bi-directional causal effects.ResultsLow grip strength (GS) did not have a causal effect on four types of OA (KOA: OR = 1.205, 95% CI 0.837-1.734, p = 0.316; HOA: OR = 1.090, 95% CI 0.924-1.609, p = 0.307; TKR: OR = 1.190, 95% CI 1.084-1.307, p = 0.058; THR: OR = 1.035, 95% CI 0.792-1.353, p = 0.798), while appendicular lean mass (ALM) had a causal effect on four types of OA (KOA: OR = 1.104, 95% CI 1.041-1.171, p = 0.001; HOA: OR = 1.151, 95% CI 1.071-1.237, p < 0.001; TKR: OR = 1.114, 95% CI 1.007-1.232, p < 0.001; THR: OR = 1.203, 95% CI 1.099-1.316, p < 0.001). In the reverse direction, KOA or HOA did not have a significant causal effect on both GS and ALM (KOA-GS: OR = 1.077, 95% CI 0.886-1.309, p = 0.458; KOA-ALM: Beta = 0.004, p = 0.892; HOA-GS: OR = 1.038, 95% CI 0.981-1.099, p = 0.209; HOA-ALM: Beta = - 0.017, p = 0.196; TKR-GS: OR = 0.999, 95% CI 0.739-1.351, p = 0.997; TKR-ALM: Beta = 0.018, p = 0.501; THR-GS: OR = 1.037, 95% CI 0.978-1.101, p = 0.222; THR-ALM: Beta = - 0.023, p = 0.081).ConclusionsThe present study suggests that SP may have a causal effect on OA through changes in muscle composition rather than muscle strength, while little evidence was provided for the causal effect of OA on SP.

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