A Positive Causal Influence of IL-18 Levels on the Risk of T2DM: A Mendelian Randomization Study
A large number of clinical studies have shown that interleukin-18 (IL-18) plasma levels are positively correlated with the pathogenesis and development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), but it remains unclear whether IL-18 causes T2DM, primarily due to the influence of reverse causality and residu...
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doaj-12dddf71da2d4f0295c3deca6e7cc2492020-11-24T20:45:02ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Genetics1664-80212019-04-011010.3389/fgene.2019.00295447404A Positive Causal Influence of IL-18 Levels on the Risk of T2DM: A Mendelian Randomization StudyHe Zhuang0Junwei Han1Liang Cheng2Shu-Lin Liu3Shu-Lin Liu4Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, ChinaCollege of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, ChinaCollege of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, ChinaSystemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, ChinaDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, CanadaA large number of clinical studies have shown that interleukin-18 (IL-18) plasma levels are positively correlated with the pathogenesis and development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), but it remains unclear whether IL-18 causes T2DM, primarily due to the influence of reverse causality and residual confounding factors. Genome-wide association studies have led to the discovery of numerous common variants associated with IL-18 and T2DM and opened unprecedented opportunities for investigating possible associations between genetic traits and diseases. In this study, we employed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method to analyze the causal relationships between IL-18 plasma levels and T2DM using IL18-related SNPs as genetic instrumental variables (IVs). We first selected eight SNPs that were significantly associated with IL-18 but independent of T2DM. We then used these SNPs as IVs to evaluate their effects on T2DM using the inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method. Finally, we conducted sensitivity analysis and MR-Egger regression analysis to evaluate the heterogeneity and pleiotropic effects of each variant. The results based on the IVW method demonstrate that high IL-18 plasma levels significantly increase the risk of T2DM, and no heterogeneity or pleiotropic effects appeared after the sensitivity and MR-Egger analyses.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2019.00295/fullinterleukin-18 levelstype 2 diabetes mellituscasual effectMendelian randomizationgenome-wide association studies |
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He Zhuang Junwei Han Liang Cheng Shu-Lin Liu Shu-Lin Liu A Positive Causal Influence of IL-18 Levels on the Risk of T2DM: A Mendelian Randomization Study Frontiers in Genetics interleukin-18 levels type 2 diabetes mellitus casual effect Mendelian randomization genome-wide association studies |
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A Positive Causal Influence of IL-18 Levels on the Risk of T2DM: A Mendelian Randomization Study |
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A Positive Causal Influence of IL-18 Levels on the Risk of T2DM: A Mendelian Randomization Study |
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A Positive Causal Influence of IL-18 Levels on the Risk of T2DM: A Mendelian Randomization Study |
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A Positive Causal Influence of IL-18 Levels on the Risk of T2DM: A Mendelian Randomization Study |
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A Positive Causal Influence of IL-18 Levels on the Risk of T2DM: A Mendelian Randomization Study |
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positive causal influence of il-18 levels on the risk of t2dm: a mendelian randomization study |
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A large number of clinical studies have shown that interleukin-18 (IL-18) plasma levels are positively correlated with the pathogenesis and development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), but it remains unclear whether IL-18 causes T2DM, primarily due to the influence of reverse causality and residual confounding factors. Genome-wide association studies have led to the discovery of numerous common variants associated with IL-18 and T2DM and opened unprecedented opportunities for investigating possible associations between genetic traits and diseases. In this study, we employed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method to analyze the causal relationships between IL-18 plasma levels and T2DM using IL18-related SNPs as genetic instrumental variables (IVs). We first selected eight SNPs that were significantly associated with IL-18 but independent of T2DM. We then used these SNPs as IVs to evaluate their effects on T2DM using the inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method. Finally, we conducted sensitivity analysis and MR-Egger regression analysis to evaluate the heterogeneity and pleiotropic effects of each variant. The results based on the IVW method demonstrate that high IL-18 plasma levels significantly increase the risk of T2DM, and no heterogeneity or pleiotropic effects appeared after the sensitivity and MR-Egger analyses. |
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interleukin-18 levels type 2 diabetes mellitus casual effect Mendelian randomization genome-wide association studies |
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