Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Genome-wide association study identifies 143 loci associated with 25 hydroxyvitamin D concentration

  • Joana A. Revez,
  • Tian Lin,
  • Zhen Qiao,
  • Angli Xue,
  • Yan Holtz,
  • Zhihong Zhu,
  • Jian Zeng,
  • Huanwei Wang,
  • Julia Sidorenko,
  • Kathryn E. Kemper,
  • Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,
  • Julanne Frater,
  • Darryl Eyles,
  • Thomas H. J. Burne,
  • Brittany Mitchell,
  • Nicholas G. Martin,
  • Gu Zhu,
  • Peter M. Visscher,
  • Jian Yang,
  • Naomi R. Wray,
  • John J. McGrath

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15421-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Vitamin D is a precursor of the steroid hormone 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, and its deficiency is associated with many adverse health outcomes. Here, Revez et al. perform a genome-wide association study for circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D in 417,580 individuals and test for potential causal relationships with other traits using Mendelian randomization.