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Public Health"],"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title>Purpose<\/jats:title><jats:p>Osteoporosis is associated with metabolic alterations, but the causal roles of serum metabolites on osteoporosis have not been identified.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Based on the large individual-level datasets from UK Biobank as well as GWAS summary datasets, we first constructed genetic risk scores (GRSs) for 308 of 486 human serum metabolites and evaluated the effect of each GRS on 2 major osteoporosis phenotypes, i.e., estimated bone miner density (eBMD) and fracture, respectively. Then, two-sample Mendelian Randomization (MR) was performed to validate the casual metabolites on osteoporosis. Multivariable MR analysis tested whether the effects of metabolites on osteoporosis are independent of possible confounders. Finally, we conducted metabolic pathway analysis for the metabolites involved in bone metabolism.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We identified causal effects of 18 metabolites on eBMD and 1 metabolite on fracture with the GRS method after adjusting for multiple tests. Then, 9 of them were further validated with MR as replication, where comprehensive sensitive analyses proved robust of the causal associations. Although not identified in GRS, 3 metabolites were associated with at least three osteoporosis traits in MR results. Multivariable MR analysis determined the independent causal effect of several metabolites on osteoporosis. Besides, 23 bone metabolic pathways were detected, such as valine, leucine, isoleucine biosynthesis (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.053), and Aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.076), and D-glutamine and D-glutamate metabolism (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.004).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The systematic causal analyses strongly suggested that blood metabolites have causal effects on osteoporosis risk.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpubh.2022.905178","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,25]],"date-time":"2022-08-25T06:34:20Z","timestamp":1661409260000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Systematic evaluation for the causal effects of blood metabolites on osteoporosis: Genetic risk score and Mendelian randomization"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Xing-Hao","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rong-Rong","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yi-Qun","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shu-Feng","family":"Lei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fei-Yan","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"254","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMcp1513724","article-title":"Clinical practice. 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