Circulating Glutamine and Alzheimer's Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder. Its worldwide prevalence is over 24 million and is expected to double by 2040. Finding ways to prevent its cognitive decline is urgent.

Methods

A two-sample Mendelian randomization study was performed instrumenting glutamine, which is abundant in blood, capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier, and involved in a metabolic cycle with glutamate in the brain.

Results

The results reveal a protective effect of circulating glutamine against Alzheimer's disease (inverse-variance weighted method, odds ratio per 1-standard deviation increase in circulating glutamine = 0.83; 95% CI 0.71, 0.97; P = 0.02).

Conclusion

These findings lend credence to the emerging story supporting the modifi

SUBMITTER: Adams CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7020919 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature