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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Mendelian randomization study on amino acid metabolism suggests tyrosine as causal trait for type 2 diabetes |
| Creators Name: | Jäger, S., Cuadrat, R., Wittenbecher, C., Floegel, A., Hoffmann, P., Prehn, C., Adamski, J., Pischon, T. and Schulze, M.B. |
| Abstract: | Circulating levels of branched-chain amino acids, glycine, or aromatic amino acids have been associated with risk of type 2 diabetes. However, whether those associations reflect causal relationships or are rather driven by early processes of disease development is unclear. We selected diabetes-related amino acid ratios based on metabolic network structures and investigated causal effects of these ratios and single amino acids on the risk of type 2 diabetes in two-sample Mendelian randomization studies. Selection of genetic instruments for amino acid traits relied on genome-wide association studies in a representative sub-cohort (up to 2265 participants) of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam Study and public data from genome-wide association studies on single amino acids. For the selected instruments, outcome associations were drawn from the DIAGRAM (DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis, 74,124 cases and 824,006 controls) consortium. Mendelian randomization results indicate an inverse association for a per standard deviation increase in ln-transformed tyrosine/methionine ratio with type 2 diabetes (OR = 0.87 (0.81-0.93)). Multivariable Mendelian randomization revealed inverse association for higher log(10)-transformed tyrosine levels with type 2 diabetes (OR = 0.19 (0.04-0.88)), independent of other amino acids. Tyrosine might be a causal trait for type 2 diabetes independent of other diabetes-associated amino acids. |
| Keywords: | Mendelian Randomization, Amino Acids, Tyrosine, Type 2 Diabetes, GWAS |
| Source: | Nutrients |
| ISSN: | 2072-6643 |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Number: | 12 |
| Page Range: | 3890 |
| Date: | 19 December 2020 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12123890 |
| PubMed: | View item in PubMed |
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