A meta-analysis of VDR polymorphisms and postmenopausal osteoporosis

Abstract

Background: Whether polymorphisms in VDR gene affect the risk of postmenopausal osteoporosis or not remain unclear. Thus, the authors performed a meta-analysis to more robustly assess associations between polymorphisms in VDR gene and the risk of postmenopausal osteoporosis by integrating the results of previous literature. Methods: Medline, Embase, Wanfang, VIP and CNKI were searched comprehensively for eligible literature, and 67 genetic association studies were fin ally selected to be included in this meta-analysis. Results: We found that ApaI rs7975232 (dominant comparison: OR = 0.77, P = 0.007; allele comparison: OR = 0.81, P = 0.04), BsmI rs1544410 (dominant comparison: OR = 0.69, P = 0.002; allele comparison: OR = 0.78, P = 0.008) and TaqI rs731236 (recessive comparison: OR = 1.32 , P = 0.01) polymorphisms were significantly associated with the risk of postmenopausal osteoporosis in Caucasians, whereas FokI rs10735810 polymorphism was significantly associated with the risk of postm enopausal osteoporosis in Asians (dominant comparison: OR = 0.61, P = 0.0001; recessive comparison: OR = 2.02, P = 0.001; allele comparison: OR = 0.68, P = 0.002). Conclusions: This meta-analysis shows that ApaI rs7975232, BsmI rs1544410 a nd TaqI rs731236 polymorphisms may affect the risk of postmenopausal ost eoporosis in Caucasians, while BsmI rs1544410 polymorphism may affect the ris k of postmenopausal osteoporosis in Asians.

Keywords

• postmenopausal osteoporosis (pmop)
• vitamin d receptor (vdr)
• gene polymorphisms
• meta-analysis