Serum anti-inflammatory and inflammatory markers have no causal impact on telomere length : a Mendelian randomization study

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INTRODUCTION: The relationship between inflammatory and anti-inflammatory markers and telomere length (TL), a biological index of aging, is still poorly understood. By applying a 2-sample Mendelian randomization (MR), we investigated the causal associations between adiponectin, bilirubin, C-reactive protein (CRP), leptin, and serum uric acid (SUA) with TL.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: MR was implemented by using summary-level data from the largest ever genome-wide association studies (GWAS) conducted on our interested exposure and TL. Inverse variance weighted method (IVW), weighted median (WM)-based method, MR-Egger, MR-Robust Adjusted Profile Score (RAPS), and MR-Pleiotropy RESidual Sum and Outlier (PRESSO) were applied. Sensitivity analysis was conducted using the leave-one-out method.

RESULTS: With regard to adiponectin, CRP, leptin, and SUA levels, we found no effect on TL for all 4 types of tests (all p > 0.108). Results of the MR-Egger (p = 0.892) and IVW (p = 0.124) showed that bilirubin had no effect on telomere maintenance, whereas the results of the WM (p = 0.030) and RAPS (p = 0.022) were negative, with higher bilirubin concentrations linked to shorter TL. There was a low likelihood of heterogeneity for all the estimations, except for bilirubin (IVW p = 0.026, MR Egger p = 0.018). MR-PRESSO highlighted no outlier. For all the estimations, we observed negligible intercepts that were indicative of low likelihood of the pleiotropy (all p > 0.161). The results of leave-one-out method demonstrated that the links are not driven because of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).

CONCLUSIONS: Our results highlight that neither the anti-inflammatory nor pro-inflammatory markers tested have any significant causal effect on TL. The casual role of bilirubin on TL still needs to be investigated.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Archives of medical science : AMS - 17(2021), 3 vom: 13., Seite 739-751

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mazidi, Mohsen [VerfasserIn]
Shekoohi, Niloofar [VerfasserIn]
Katsiki, Niki [VerfasserIn]
Rakowski, Michal [VerfasserIn]
Mikhailidis, Dimitri P [VerfasserIn]
Banach, Maciej [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adiponectin
Bilirubin
C-reactive protein
Journal Article
Leptin
Mendelian randomization
Serum uric acid
Telomere length

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Date Revised 23.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.5114/aoms/119965

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM325751218