Telomere Length and Hearing Loss: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization

Wang, DH; Yang, L (通讯作者),Hangzhou Normal Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Hangzhou 310000, Peoples R China.
2022-8
Background: Observational studies have suggested that there may be an association between telomere length (TL) and hearing loss (HL). However, inferring causality from observational studies is subject to residual confounding effects, reverse causation, and bias. This study adopted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach to evaluate the causal relationship between TL and increased risk of HL. Methods: A total of 16 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with TL were identified from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis of 78,592 European participants and applied to our modeling as instrumental variables. Summary-level data for hearing loss (HL), age-related hearing loss (ARHL), and noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) were obtained from the recent largest available GWAS and five MR analyses were used to investigate the potential causal association of genetically predicted TL with increased risk for HL, including the inverse-variance-weighted (IVW), weighted median, MR-Egger regression, simple mode, and weighted mode. In addition, sensitivity analysis, pleiotropy, and heterogeneity tests were also used to evaluate the robustness of our findings. Results: There was no causal association between genetically predicted TL and HL or its subtypes (by the IVW method, HL: odds ratio (OR) = 1.216, p = 0.382; ARHL: OR = 0.934, p = 0.928; NIHL: OR = 1.003, p = 0.776). Although heterogenous sites rs2736176, rs3219104, rs8105767, and rs2302588 were excluded for NIHL, the second MR analysis was consistent with the first analysis (OR = 1.003, p = 0.572). Conclusion: There was no clear causal relationship between shorter TLs and increased risk of HL or its subtypes in this dataset.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
卷号:19|期号:15
收录类别:SCIE
语种
英语
来源机构
Hangzhou Normal University; Huazhong University of Science & Technology
资助信息
This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 72074066) and the Hangzhou Major Technological Innovation Project of China (NO. 20152013A01).
被引频次(WOS)
0
被引频次(其他)
0
180天使用计数
5
2013以来使用计数
7
EISSN
1660-4601
出版年
2022-8
DOI
10.3390/ijerph19158937
学科领域
循证公共卫生
关键词
Mendelian randomization telomere length hearing loss causal effect age-related hearing loss noise-induced hearing loss
资助机构
National Natural Science Foundation of China(National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)) Hangzhou Major Technological Innovation Project of China
WOS学科分类
Environmental Sciences Public, Environmental & Occupational Health