Causal relationship between immune cells and myopia:a two-sample bidirec-tional and multivariable Mendelian randomization analysis
10.13389/j.cnki.rao.2025.0039
- VernacularTitle:免疫细胞与近视之间的因果关系——基于双样本双向及多变量孟德尔随机化分析
- Author:
Xueting WANG
1
;
Yalong DANG
;
Fang LEI
Author Information
1. 471000 河南省洛阳市,河南科技大学信息工程学院;471003 河南省洛阳市,河南科技大学第一附属医院,河南科技大学临床医学院
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
myopia;
immune cells;
Mendelian randomization
- From:
Recent Advances in Ophthalmology
2025;45(3):221-226
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the causal relationship between myopia and specific immune cells through Mende-lian randomization(MR)analysis.Methods Data were mined from the Genome-Wide Association Studies(GWAS)data-base,and 731 immune cell characteristics were selected as exposure factors and myopia as the outcome factor.A signifi-cance threshold was established to filter single nucleotide polymorphisms(SNPs)significantly associated with immune cells and myopia,and the influence of weak instrument variable bias was eliminated.The primary analysis method employed was the inverse variance weighted(IVW)approach,supplemented by simple mode,weighted median,weighted mode,and MR-Egger regression for data analysis.The causal relationship between circulating immune cells and myopia was assessed using odds ratios(OR)and 95％confidence intervals.For the SNPs of immune cells that met the hypothesis,Cochran's Q test was used to evaluate heterogeneity,and MR-Egger regression and MR-PRESSO methods were employed to exclude hor-izontal pleiotropy.The leave-one-out analysis was utilized to assess whether significant results were driven by individual SNPs.To avoid reverse causal relationships,myopia was taken as the exposure variable and immune cell phenotypes as outcome variables in the reverse MR analysis.Additionally,multivariate Mendelian randomization(MVMR)was used to e-valuate the causal and independent effects of these immune cells on myopia.Results(1)The results from the two-sam-ple MR IVW method indicated that Memory B cell AC and CD24+CD27+AC(B cells)were protective factors against my-opia.In contrast,Naive CD8br％CD8br(T cells),CD39+CD8br AC(T cells),CD25 on CD39+activated Treg(T cells),PDL-1 on CD 14+CD 16+monocytes and CD80 on myeloid DC were identified as risk factors for myopia.These re-sults are consistent with those of MR-Egger and other methods.MR-Egger regression and MR-PRESSO analyses demonstra-ted that there was no horizontal pleiotropy(P＞0.05).(2)The reverse two-sample MR analysis revealed no bidirectional causal relationships between myopia and the aforementioned seven immune cells(all P＞0.05).(3)In the MVMR analysis,the significant causal relationship between CD80 on myeloid DC and myopia remained robust after adjusting for potential confounding variables.Conclusion This study reveals the complex causal relationships between various immune pheno-types and myopia through genetic methods,and demonstrates the intricate regulatory patterns of interactions between the immune system and myopia.
