Xiaolin Yang1,2, Qingtian Zhu1,2, Lei Zhang3, Yufang Pei4, Xiaojian Xu5, Xinnong Liu1,2, Guotao Lu1,2, Jiajia Pan6, Ying Wang7. 1. Institute of digestive diseases, The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, PR China. 2. Pancreatic Center, Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, PR China. 3. Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China. 4. Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public and Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China. 5. Jiangsu Provincial Yangzhou Environmental Monitoring Center, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, PR China. 6. Intensive Care Unit, The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, PR China. jjpan@yzu.edu.cn. 7. Department of Endocrinology, The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, PR China. wangying1972@yzu.edu.cn.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The gastrointestinal microbiota is emerging as an important mediator in intestinal metabolism, such as vitamin D absorption. METHODS: To elucidate the causality of microbiota and vitamin D, we used linkage disequilibrium score (LDSC) regression and two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) methods with largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics to identify specific taxa that are linked to serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D). RESULTS: We found that Ruminiclostridium9 was significantly genetically correlated with 25(OH)D at nominal significance (rg = 0.43, P = 0.04). Applying the inverse variance weighted (IVW) method, we identified that doubling the genetic liability of abundance of Erysipelotrichia, Erysipelotrichaceae and Erysipelotrichales reduced the concentration of 25(OH)D by 0.06 standard deviation (SD) (βIVW = -0.06, s.e. = 0.01, P = 1.48 × 10-6, PFDR = 1.93 × 10-4) and, in turn, one SD increment in genetically determined serum 25(OH)D caused a 0.16 SD decrease in the relative abundance of Phascolarctobacterium (βIVW = -0.16, s.e. = 0.04, P = 2.48 × 10-4, PFDR = 0.02) after removing pleiotropic instruments and outliers. Moreover, four MR methods were also used to evaluate causality, the results of which supported these findings. Leave-one-out analyses showed that the results were robust with regard to alterations in the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) we selected. CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, our results support the hypothesis that the gut microbiota mediates the absorption of serum vitamin D supplementation and interacts with it closely. These microbiota are potential therapeutic targets for promoting serum vitamin D homeostasis.
BACKGROUND: The gastrointestinal microbiota is emerging as an important mediator in intestinal metabolism, such as vitamin D absorption. METHODS: To elucidate the causality of microbiota and vitamin D, we used linkage disequilibrium score (LDSC) regression and two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) methods with largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics to identify specific taxa that are linked to serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D). RESULTS: We found that Ruminiclostridium9 was significantly genetically correlated with 25(OH)D at nominal significance (rg = 0.43, P = 0.04). Applying the inverse variance weighted (IVW) method, we identified that doubling the genetic liability of abundance of Erysipelotrichia, Erysipelotrichaceae and Erysipelotrichales reduced the concentration of 25(OH)D by 0.06 standard deviation (SD) (βIVW = -0.06, s.e. = 0.01, P = 1.48 × 10-6, PFDR = 1.93 × 10-4) and, in turn, one SD increment in genetically determined serum 25(OH)D caused a 0.16 SD decrease in the relative abundance of Phascolarctobacterium (βIVW = -0.16, s.e. = 0.04, P = 2.48 × 10-4, PFDR = 0.02) after removing pleiotropic instruments and outliers. Moreover, four MR methods were also used to evaluate causality, the results of which supported these findings. Leave-one-out analyses showed that the results were robust with regard to alterations in the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) we selected. CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, our results support the hypothesis that the gut microbiota mediates the absorption of serum vitamin D supplementation and interacts with it closely. These microbiota are potential therapeutic targets for promoting serum vitamin D homeostasis.
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