Depression and prostate cancer risk: A Mendelian randomization study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The association between depression and prostate carcinogenesis has been reported in observational studies but the causality from depression on prostate cancer (PCa) remained unknown. We aimed to assess the causal effect of depression on PCa using the two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method.

Methods

Two sets of genetics instruments were used for analysis, derived from publicly available genetic summary data. One was 44 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) robustly associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) and the other was two SNPs related with depressive status as ever depressed for a whole week. Inverse-variance weighted method, weighted median method, MR-Egger regression, MR Pleiotropy RESidual Sum, and Outlier test were used for MR analyses.

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SUBMITTER: Chen X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7724297 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature