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. 2021 Jan 8:11:582623.
doi: 10.3389/fgene.2020.582623. eCollection 2020.

Association Between Circulating Linoleic Acid and Risk of Ischemic Stroke

Ding Ye  1 , Huijun Huang  1 , David J H Wu  1   2 , Wanting Zhang  1 , Feixiang Zhou  1 , Yu Qian  1   3 , Jusheng Zheng  3 , Yingying Mao  1
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Association Between Circulating Linoleic Acid and Risk of Ischemic Stroke

Ding Ye et al. Front Genet. .

Abstract

Background: Observational studies have shown an inverse association between circulating linoleic acid (LA) and risk of ischemic stroke (IS).

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore whether genetic variants predicting levels of circulating LA are associated with IS and its subtypes using a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.

Methods: LA-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were selected from a genome-wide association study of 8,631 participants, and summary statistics of IS and IS subtypes were obtained from the MEGASTROKE consortium. MR analysis was performed using the inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method complemented with other approaches, including weighted-median, weighted-mode, MR Pleiotropy RESidual Sum and Outlier test and MR-Egger regression, to test for the robustness of the association. Moreover, we conducted bidirectional MR analysis to assess the impact of IS-associated SNPs on circulating LA levels. Odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were calculated.

Results: We found that genetically predicted circulating LA levels were inversely associated with the risk of IS by the IVW method (OR = 0.98, 95% CI: 0.97-0.99, and P = 0.003). Subgroup analyses showed a statistically significant association between LA and risk of large artery stroke (LAS; OR = 0.95, 95% CI: 0.92-0.98, and P = 0.004), but not for other IS subtypes. The results were stable in sensitivity analyses, and no evidence of reverse association between LA and risk of IS, or LAS was observed.

Conclusion: Our study supports a potential inverse association of genetically predicted circulating LA levels with risk of IS, particularly LAS.

Keywords: Genetic variation; Mendelian randomization; ischemic stroke; linoleic acid; single nucleotide polymorphism.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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FIGURE 1
An overview of the Mendelian randomization (MR) study design. Abbreviation: IVW, inverse-variance weighted; PRESSO, Pleiotropy RESidual Sum and Outlier.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
MR estimates between the association of linoleic acid (LA) and ischemic stroke (IS) with its subtypes by additional IV sets. Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.
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