Borges, MC;
Lawlor, DA;
de Oliveira, C;
White, J;
Horta, BL;
Barros, AJD;
(2016)
Role of Adiponectin in Coronary Heart Disease Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
Circulation Research
, 119
(3)
pp. 491-499.
10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.308716.
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Abstract
RATIONALE: Hypoadiponectinemia correlates with several coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors. However, it is unknown whether adiponectin is causally implicated in CHD pathogenesis. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the causal effect of adiponectin on CHD risk. METHODS AND RESULTS: We undertook a Mendelian randomization study using data from genome-wide association studies consortia. We used the ADIPOGen consortium to identify genetic variants that could be used as instrumental variables for the effect of adiponectin. Data on the association of these genetic variants with CHD risk were obtained from CARDIoGRAM (22 233 CHD cases and 64 762 controls of European ancestry) and from CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Metabochip (63 746 cases and 130 681 controls; ≈ 91% of European ancestry) consortia. Data on the association of genetic variants with adiponectin levels and with CHD were combined to estimate the influence of blood adiponectin on CHD risk. In the conservative approach (restricted to using variants within the adiponectin gene as instrumental variables), each 1 U increase in log blood adiponectin concentration was associated with an odds ratio for CHD of 0.83 (95% confidence interval, 0.68–1.01) in CARDIoGRAM and 0.97 (95% confidence interval, 0.84–1.12) in CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Metabochip. Findings from the liberal approach (including variants in any locus across the genome) indicated a protective effect of adiponectin that was attenuated to the null after adjustment for known CHD predictors. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, our findings do not support a causal role of adiponectin levels in CHD pathogenesis.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Role of Adiponectin in Coronary Heart Disease Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.308716 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.308716 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Circulation Research is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-NoDervis License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited, the use is noncommercial, and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Keywords: | adiponectin, cardiovascular disease, coronary artery disease, mendelian randomization analysis, obesity |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1503067 |
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