Association of plasma branched-chain amino acid with multiple cancers : A mendelian randomization analysis

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BACKGROUND: Studies have suggested a possible relevance between branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) catabolic enzymes and cancers. However, few studies have explored the variation in circulating concentrations of BCAAs. Our study used bi-directional, two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis for predicting the causality between the BCAA levels and 9 types of cancers.

METHODS: The largest genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provided data for total BCAAs, valine, leucine, and isoleucine from the UK Biobank. Data on multiple cancer endpoints were collected from various sources, such as the International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO), the Pancreatic Cancer Cohort Consortium 1 (PanScan1), the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC), the FinnGen Biobank, and the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (OCAC). The mainly analysis method was the inverse-variance-weighted (IVW). For assessing horizontal pleiotropy, the researchers performed MR-Egger regression and MR-PRESSO global test. Finally, the Cochran's Q test served for evaluating the heterogeneity.

RESULTS: Circulating total BCAAs levels (OR 1.708, 95%CI 1.168, 2.498; p = 0.006), valine levels (OR 1.747, 95%CI 1.217, 2.402; p < 0.001), leucine levels (OR 1.923, 95%CI 1.279, 2.890; p = 0.002) as well as isoleucine levels (OR 1.898, 95%CI 1.164, 3.094; p = 0.010) positively correlated with the squamous cell lung cancer risk. Nevertheless, no compelling evidence was found to support a causal link between BCAAs and any other examined cancers.

CONCLUSIONS: Increased circulating total-BCAAs levels, leucine levels, isoleucine levels and valine levels had higher hazard of squamous cell lung cancer. No such associations were found for BCAAs with other cancers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 42(2023), 12 vom: 16. Dez., Seite 2493-2502

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xu, Huan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xuanyang [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Xiaoqing [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yuntao [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Xuemin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yingfeng [VerfasserIn]
Dang, Keke [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ying [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

04Y7590D77
Amino Acids, Branched-Chain
Branched chain amino acids
Cancer
GMW67QNF9C
HG18B9YRS7
Isoleucine
Journal Article
Leucine
Mendelian randomization
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Valine

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Date Completed 27.11.2023

Date Revised 15.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.clnu.2023.10.019

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364145455