Causal relationship between obesity and vitamin D status: bi-directional Mendelian randomization analysis of multiple cohorts

Karani S Vimaleswaran, Diane J Berry, Chen Lu, Emmi Tikkanen, Stefan Pilz, Linda T Hiraki, Jason D Cooper, Zari Dastani, Rui Li, Denise K Houston, Andrew R Wood, Karl Michaëlsson, Liesbeth Vandenput, Lina Zgaga, Laura M Yerges-Armstrong, Mark I McCarthy, Josée Dupuis, Marika Kaakinen, Marcus E Kleber, Karen JamesonNigel Arden, Olli Raitakari, Jorma Viikari, Kurt K Lohman, Luigi Ferrucci, Håkan Melhus, Erik Ingelsson, Liisa Byberg, Lars Solskov Lind, Mattias Lorentzon, Veikko Salomaa, Harry Campbell, Malcolm Dunlop, Braxton D Mitchell, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Anneli Pouta, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Elizabeth A Streeten, Evropi Theodoratou, Antti Jula, Nicholas J Wareham, Claes Ohlsson, Timothy M Frayling, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Timothy D Spector, J Brent Richards, Terho Lehtimäki, Willem H Ouwehand, Peter Kraft, Cyrus Cooper, Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits-GIANT Consortium

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    Abstract

    Obesity is associated with vitamin D deficiency, and both are areas of active public health concern. We explored the causality and direction of the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] using genetic markers as instrumental variables (IVs) in bi-directional Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftPLOS Medicine
    Vol/bind10
    Udgave nummer2
    Sider (fra-til)e1001383
    ISSN1549-1676
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 2013

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