Causal relationship between gut microbiota and rheumatoid arthritis : a two-sample Mendelian randomisation study

OBJECTIVES: To assess whether there is a bidirectional causal relationship between the composition of gut microbiota and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to identify specific pathogenic bacterial taxa via the Mendelian randomisation (MR) analysis.

METHODS: We acquired single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with the composition of gut microbiota (n=18,340) and with RA (n=331,313) from publicly available genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The genome-wide threshold was 1 × 10-5 in the forward MR analysis and was 5 × 10-8 in the reverse MR analysis. Inverse variance weighted (IVW) was the main method to analyse causality, and MR results were verified by several sensitivity analyses including weighted median, MR Egger, and MR Pleiotropy Residual Sum and Outlier (PRESSO).

RESULTS: The IVW method suggested that eight taxa were positively correlated with RA, including: MollicutesRF9 (pIVW <0.01), Alphaproteobacteria (pIVW <0.01), Betaproteobacteria (p IVW =0.04), Bacteroidaceae (pIVW <0.01), Adlercreutzia (pIVW <0.01), Bacteroides (pIVW <0.01), Butyricimonas (p IVW =0.03) and Holdemanella (pIVW =0.03). Six bacterial taxa were negatively correlated with RA, including Desulfovibrionales (pIVW = 0.01), Methanobacteriales (pIVW <0.01), Methanobacteria (PIVW <0.01), Desulfovibrionaceae (pIVW <0.01), Methanobacteriaceae (pIVW <0.01) and Butyrivibrio (pIVW =0.02). Heterogeneity (p>0.05) and pleiotropy (p>0.05) analysis confirmed the robustness of the MR results.

CONCLUSIONS: We identified some specific bacterial taxa that were causally associated with the risk of RA, providing new insights into prevention and diagnosis of RA.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

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Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 42(2024), 1 vom: 01. Jan., Seite 166-173

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Englisch

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Gou, Yifan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jingxi [VerfasserIn]
Li, Chun'e [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ye [VerfasserIn]
Hui, Jingni [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Ruixue [VerfasserIn]
Kang, Meijuan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Chen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Bingyi [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Pangxing [VerfasserIn]
Wen, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Feng [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 05.02.2024

Date Revised 05.02.2024

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Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.55563/clinexprheumatol/p9ig7c

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NLM363056505