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Investigating the Causal Relationship of C-Reactive Protein with 32 Complex Somatic and Psychiatric Outcomes: A Large-Scale Cross-Consortium Mendelian Randomization Study

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PLOS MEDICINE
卷 13, 期 6, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001976

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  1. ESRC [ES/H029745/1, ES/M008592/1, ES/L008238/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  2. MRC [MC_UU_12019/1, MC_UU_12015/2, G1001799, MR/N01104X/1, G1001158, MC_U106179472] Funding Source: UKRI
  3. Economic and Social Research Council [ES/H029745/1, ES/L008238/1, ES/M008592/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  4. Medical Research Council [MC_U106179472, MR/L501529/1, G1001799, G1001158, MC_UU_12015/2, MC_UU_12019/1, MR/N01104X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  5. National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0512-10019, NF-SI-0513-10064, NF-SI-0514-10027] Funding Source: researchfish
  6. Parkinson's UK [G-1107] Funding Source: researchfish
  7. Medical Research Council [MR/L501529/1, MC-U106179471, G1001158, MC_UU_12019/1] Funding Source: Medline
  8. NHLBI NIH HHS [N01HC25195, HHSN268201500001I, R01 HL076784] Funding Source: Medline
  9. NIAMS NIH HHS [R01 AR050511, R01 AR042742, R01 AR054966, R01 AR055258] Funding Source: Medline
  10. NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG028321] Funding Source: Medline
  11. NIDDK NIH HHS [U01 DK062418, DP3 DK085708] Funding Source: Medline
  12. Parkinson's UK [G-1107] Funding Source: Medline
  13. Wellcome Trust [WT098017, WT098051, 076113] Funding Source: Medline
  14. Department of Health Funding Source: Medline

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Background C-reactive protein (CRP) is associated with immune, cardiometabolic, and psychiatric traits and diseases. Yet it is inconclusive whether these associations are causal. Methods and Findings We performed Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses using two genetic risk scores (GRSs) as instrumental variables (IVs). The first GRS consisted of four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the CRP gene (GRS(CRP)), and the second consisted of 18 SNPs that were significantly associated with CRP levels in the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) to date (GRS(GWAS)). To optimize power, we used summary statistics from GWAS consortia and tested the association of these two GRSs with 32 complex somatic and psychiatric outcomes, with up to 123,865 participants per outcome from populations of European ancestry. We performed heterogeneity tests to disentangle the pleiotropic effect of IVs. A Bonferroni-corrected significance level of less than 0.0016 was considered statistically significant. An observed p-value equal to or less than 0.05 was considered nominally significant evidence for a potential causal association, yet to be confirmed. The strengths (F-statistics) of the IVs were 31.92-3,761.29 and 82.32-9,403.21 for GRS(CRP) and GRS(GWAS), respectively. CRP GRS(GWAS) showed a statistically significant protective relationship of a 10% genetically elevated CRP level with the risk of schizophrenia (odds ratio [OR] 0.86 [95% CI 0.79-0.94]; p < 0.001). We validated this finding with individual-level genotype data from the schizophrenia GWAS (OR 0.96 [95% CI 0.94-0.98]; p < 1.72 x 10(-6)). Further, we found that a standardized CRP polygenic risk score (CRPPRS) at p-value thresholds of 1 x 10(-4), 0.001, 0.01, 0.05, and 0.1 using individual-level data also showed a protective effect (OR < 1.00) against schizophrenia; the first CRPPRS (built of SNPs with p < 1 x 10(-4)) showed a statistically significant (p < 2.45 x 10(-4)) protective effect with an OR of 0.97 (95% CI 0.95-0.99). The CRP GRS(GWAS) showed that a 10% increase in genetically determined CRP level was significantly associated with coronary artery disease (OR 0.88 [95% CI 0.84-0.94]; p < 2.4 x 10(-5)) and was nominally associated with the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (OR 0.85 [95% CI 0.74-0.98]; p < 0.03), Crohn disease (OR 0.81 [95% CI 0.70-0.94]; p < 0.005), psoriatic arthritis (OR 1.36 [95% CI 1.00-1.84]; p < 0.049), knee osteoarthritis (OR 1.17 [95% CI 1.01-1.36]; p < 0.04), and bipolar disorder (OR 1.21 [95% CI 1.05-1.40]; p < 0.007) and with an increase of 0.72 (95% CI 0.11-1.34; p < 0.02) mm Hg in systolic blood pressure, 0.45 (95% CI 0.06-0.84; p < 0.02) mm Hg in diastolic blood pressure, 0.01 ml/min/1.73 m(2) (95% CI 0.003-0.02; p < 0.005) in estimated glomerular filtration rate from serum creatinine, 0.01 g/dl (95% CI 0.0004-0.02; p < 0.04) in serum albumin level, and 0.03 g/dl (95% CI 0.008-0.05; p < 0.009) in serum protein level. However, after adjustment for heterogeneity, neither GRS showed a significant effect of CRP level (at p < 0.0016) on any of these outcomes, including coronary artery disease, nor on the other 20 complex outcomes studied. Our study has two potential limitations: the limited variance explained by our genetic instruments modeling CRP levels in blood and the unobserved bias introduced by the use of summary statistics in our MR analyses. Conclusions Genetically elevated CRP levels showed a significant potentially protective causal relationship with risk of schizophrenia. We observed nominal evidence at an observed p < 0.05 using either GRS(CRP) or GRS(GWAS)-with persistence after correction for heterogeneity-for a causal relationship of elevated CRP levels with psoriatic osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, knee osteoarthritis, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, serum albumin, and bipolar disorder. These associations remain yet to be confirmed. We cannot verify any causal effect of CRP level on any of the other common somatic and neuropsychiatric outcomes investigated in the present study. This implies that interventions that lower CRP level are unlikely to result in decreased risk for the majority of common complex outcomes.

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