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. 2022;12(1):267-282.
doi: 10.3233/JPD-212851.

Mendelian Randomisation Study of Smoking, Alcohol, and Coffee Drinking in Relation to Parkinson's Disease

Cloé Domenighetti  1 Pierre-Emmanuel Sugier  1 Ashwin Ashok Kumar Sreelatha  2 Claudia Schulte  3   4 Sandeep Grover  2 Océane Mohamed  1 Berta Portugal  1 Patrick May  5 Dheeraj R Bobbili  5   6 Milena Radivojkov-Blagojevic  7 Peter Lichtner  7 Andrew B Singleton  8   9 Dena G Hernandez  8 Connor Edsall  8 George D Mellick  10 Alexander Zimprich  11 Walter Pirker  12 Ekaterina Rogaeva  13 Anthony E Lang  14   15   16 Sulev Koks  17   18 Pille Taba  19   20 Suzanne Lesage  21 Alexis Brice  21 Jean-Christophe Corvol  21   22 Marie-Christine Chartier-Harlin  23 Eugénie Mutez  23 Kathrin Brockmann  3   4 Angela B Deutschländer  24   25   26 Georges M Hadjigeorgiou  27   28 Efthimos Dardiotis  27 Leonidas Stefanis  29   30 Athina Maria Simitsi  29 Enza Maria Valente  31   32 Simona Petrucci  33   34 Stefano Duga  35   36 Letizia Straniero  35 Anna Zecchinelli  37 Gianni Pezzoli  37 Laura Brighina  38   39 Carlo Ferrarese  38   39 Grazia Annesi  40 Andrea Quattrone  41 Monica Gagliardi  42 Hirotaka Matsuo  43 Yusuke Kawamura  43 Nobutaka Hattori  44 Kenya Nishioka  44 Sun Ju Chung  45 Yun Joong Kim  46 Pierre Kolber  47 Bart Pc van de Warrenburg  48 Bastiaan R Bloem  48 Jan Aasly  49 Mathias Toft  50 Lasse Pihlstrøm  50 Leonor Correia Guedes  51   52 Joaquim J Ferreira  51   53 Soraya Bardien  54 Jonathan Carr  55 Eduardo Tolosa  56   57 Mario Ezquerra  58 Pau Pastor  59   60 Monica Diez-Fairen  59   60 Karin Wirdefeldt  61   62 Nancy L Pedersen  62 Caroline Ran  63 Andrea C Belin  63 Andreas Puschmann  64 Clara Hellberg  64 Carl E Clarke  65 Karen E Morrison  66 Manuela Tan  67 Dimitri Krainc  68 Lena F Burbulla  68 Matt J Farrer  69 Rejko Krüger  5   47   70   71 Thomas Gasser  3   4 Manu Sharma  2   3 Alexis Elbaz  1 Comprehensive Unbiaised Risk Factor Assessment for Genetics and Environment in Parkinson’s Disease (Courage-PD) consortium
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Mendelian Randomisation Study of Smoking, Alcohol, and Coffee Drinking in Relation to Parkinson's Disease

Cloé Domenighetti et al. J Parkinsons Dis. 2022.

Abstract

Background: Previous studies showed that lifestyle behaviors (cigarette smoking, alcohol, coffee) are inversely associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). The prodromal phase of PD raises the possibility that these associations may be explained by reverse causation.

Objective: To examine associations of lifestyle behaviors with PD using two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) and the potential for survival and incidence-prevalence biases.

Methods: We used summary statistics from publicly available studies to estimate the association of genetic polymorphisms with lifestyle behaviors, and from Courage-PD (7,369 cases, 7,018 controls; European ancestry) to estimate the association of these variants with PD. We used the inverse-variance weighted method to compute odds ratios (ORIVW) of PD and 95%confidence intervals (CI). Significance was determined using a Bonferroni-corrected significance threshold (p = 0.017).

Results: We found a significant inverse association between smoking initiation and PD (ORIVW per 1-SD increase in the prevalence of ever smoking = 0.74, 95%CI = 0.60-0.93, p = 0.009) without significant directional pleiotropy. Associations in participants ≤67 years old and cases with disease duration ≤7 years were of a similar size. No significant associations were observed for alcohol and coffee drinking. In reverse MR, genetic liability toward PD was not associated with smoking or coffee drinking but was positively associated with alcohol drinking.

Conclusion: Our findings are in favor of an inverse association between smoking and PD that is not explained by reverse causation, confounding, and survival or incidence-prevalence biases. Genetic liability toward PD was positively associated with alcohol drinking. Conclusions on the association of alcohol and coffee drinking with PD are hampered by insufficient statistical power.

Keywords: Mendelian randomisation; Parkinson’s disease; Smoking; alcohol; coffee.

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Forest plot showing MR estimates for the association of smoking initiation and a lifetime smoking index with PD, overall and after stratification by age at study and disease duration in cases. OR, odds ratio; Cl, confidence interval.

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