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Therefore, we aim to comprehensively investigate their causal relationship and identify the effect of gut microbiota\/gut microbial metabolites on risk of LBP using a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Summary data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of gut microbiota (18,340 participants), gut microbial metabolites (2,076 participants) and LBP (FinnGen biobank) were separately obtained. The inverse variance-weighted (IVW) method was used as the main MR analysis. Mendelian randomization pleiotropy residual sum and outlier (MR-PRESSO) and MR-Egger regression were conducted to evaluate the horizontal pleiotropy and to eliminate outlier single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Cochran\u2019s <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic>-test was applied for heterogeneity detection. Besides, leave-one-out analysis was conducted to determine whether the causal association signals were driven by any single SNP. Finally, a reverse MR was performed to evaluate the possibility of reverse causation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We discovered that 20 gut microbial taxa and 2 gut microbial metabolites were causally related to LBP (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.05). Among them, the lower level of family <jats:italic>Ruminococcaceae<\/jats:italic> (OR: 0.771, 95% CI: 0.652\u20130.913, FDR-corrected <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.045) and <jats:italic>Lactobacillaceae<\/jats:italic> (OR: 0.875, 95% CI: 0.801\u20130.955, FDR-corrected <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.045) retained a strong causal relationship with higher risk of LBP after the Benjamini\u2013Hochberg Corrected test. The Cochrane\u2019s <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic> test revealed no Heterogeneity (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;gt;\u20090.05). Besides, MR-Egger and MR-PRESSO tests showed no significant horizontal pleiotropy (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;gt;\u20090.05). Furthermore, leave-one-out analysis confirmed the robustness of MR results. After adding BMI to the multivariate MR analysis, the 17 gut microbial taxa exposure-outcome effect were significantly attenuated and tended to be null.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our findings confirm the the potential causal effect of specific gut microbiota and gut microbial metabolites on LBP, which offers new insights into the gut microbiota-mediated mechanism of LBP and provides the theoretical basis for further explorations of targeted prevention strategies.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2023.1157451","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,14]],"date-time":"2023-04-14T04:25:50Z","timestamp":1681446350000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Genetically supported causality between gut microbiota, gut metabolites and low back pain: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Mengchan","family":"Su","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yidan","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Weishuang","family":"Kong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shuangyi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tao","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1302","DOI":"10.1017\/s0007114520000720","article-title":"Vitamin D levels in relation to low back pain during adolescence","volume":"123","author":"Al-Taiar","year":"2020","journal-title":"Br. 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