Journal
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15421-7
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- UK Biobank [12505, 10214]
- Common Fund of the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health
- NCI
- NHGRI
- NHLBI
- NIDA
- NIMH
- NINDS
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
- NHMRC [1007677, 1099709, 1078037, 1124724, 1124721, 1141699, 1056929, 1113400, 1078901]
- Australian Research Council [FT180100186]
- Danish National Research Foundation
- NHMRC (John Cade Fellowship) [1056929]
- Queensland Health
- Queensland University of Technology
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1141699, 1124724, 1124721, 1113400, 1099709, 1078901, 1078037, 1056929] Funding Source: NHMRC
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Vitamin D deficiency is a candidate risk factor for a range of adverse health outcomes. In a genome-wide association study of 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) concentration in 417,580 Europeans we identify 143 independent loci in 112 1-Mb regions, providing insights into the physiology of vitamin D and implicating genes involved in lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, dermal tissue properties, and the sulphonation and glucuronidation of 25OHD. Mendelian randomization models find no robust evidence that 25OHD concentration has causal effects on candidate phenotypes (e.g. BMI, psychiatric disorders), but many phenotypes have (direct or indirect) causal effects on 25OHD concentration, clarifying the epidemiological relationship between 25OHD status and the health outcomes examined in this study. Vitamin D is a precursor of the steroid hormone 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, and its deficiency is associated with many adverse health outcomes. Here, Revez et al. perform a genome-wide association study for circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D in 417,580 individuals and test for potential causal relationships with other traits using Mendelian randomization.
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