Frontiers in Genetics (Aug 2020)

Serum Calcium Levels and Parkinson’s Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study

  • Yanchao Wang,
  • Yanchao Wang,
  • Luyan Gao,
  • Wenjing Lang,
  • He Li,
  • Pan Cui,
  • Nan Zhang,
  • Wei Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.00824
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11

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BackgroundThough increasing epidemiological studies have evaluated the correlation between serum calcium contents and Parkinson’s disease (PD), the results are inconsistent. At present, whether there is a causal association between serum calcium content and PD remains undetermined.Objective and MethodsThis study was designed to explore the relationship between increased serum calcium contents and PD risk. In this present study, a Mendelian randomization trial was carried out using a large-scale serum calcium genome-wide association study (GWAS) dataset (N = 61,079, Europeans) and a large-scale PD GWAS dataset (N = 8,477, Europeans including 4,238 PD patients and 4,239 controls). Here, a total of four Mendelian randomization methods comprising weighted median, inverse-variance weighted meta-analysis (IVW), MR-Egger, and MR-PRESSO were used.ResultsOur data concluded that genetically higher serum calcium contents were not significantly related to PD.ConclusionIn conclusion, we provided genetic evidence that there was no direct causal relationship between serum calcium contents and PD. Hence, calcium supplementation may not result in reduced PD risk.

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