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We conducted a Mendelian randomization (MR) study of 1,824 postmenopausal Chinese women to examine whether the detected associations between serum 25OHD and bone mineral density (BMD) and bone metabolism markers were causal. In observational analyses, total serum 25OHD was positively associated with BMD at lumbar spine (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.003), femoral neck (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.006) and total hip (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.005), and was inversely associated with intact parathyroid hormone (PTH) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20098.18E-09) and procollagen type 1 N-terminal propeptide (P1NP) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.020). By contract, the associations of bioavailable and free 25OHD with all tested outcomes were negligible (all<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&gt;\u20090.05). The use of four single nucleotide polymorphisms, <jats:italic>GC<\/jats:italic>-rs2282679, <jats:italic>NADSYN1-<\/jats:italic>rs12785878<jats:italic>, CYP2R1-<\/jats:italic>rs10741657 and <jats:italic>CYP24A1-<\/jats:italic>rs6013897, as candidate instrumental variables in MR analyses showed that none of the two stage least squares models provided evidence for associations between serum 25OHD and either BMD or bone metabolism markers (all <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&gt;\u20090.05). 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