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Cuellar-Partida, G.* ; Lu, Y.* ; Kho, P.F.* ; Hewitt, A.W.* ; Wichmann, H.-E. ; Yazar, S.* ; Stambolian, D.* ; Bailey-Wilson, J.E.* ; Wojciechowski, R.* ; Wang, J.J.* ; Mitchell, P.* ; Mackey, D.A.* ; MacGregor, S.*

Assessing the genetic predisposition of education on myopia: A mendelian randomization study.

Genet. Epidemiol. 40, 66-72 (2016)
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Myopia is the largest cause of uncorrected visual impairments globally and its recent dramatic increase in the population has made it a major public health problem. In observational studies, educational attainment has been consistently reported to be correlated to myopia. Nonetheless, correlation does not imply causation. Observational studies do not tell us if education causes myopia or if instead there are confounding factors underlying the association. In this work, we use a two-step least squares instrumental-variable (IV) approach to estimate the causal effect of education on refractive error, specifically myopia. We used the results from the educational attainment GWAS from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium to define a polygenic risk score (PGRS) in three cohorts of late middle age and elderly Caucasian individuals (N = 5,649). In a meta-analysis of the three cohorts, using the PGRS as an IV, we estimated that each z-score increase in education (approximately 2 years of education) results in a reduction of 0.92 ± 0.29 diopters (P = 1.04 × 10-3). Our estimate of the effect of education on myopia was higher (P = 0.01) than the observed estimate (0.25 ± 0.03 diopters reduction per education z-score [∼2 years] increase). This suggests that observational studies may actually underestimate the true effect. Our Mendelian Randomization (MR) analysis provides new evidence for a causal role of educational attainment on refractive error.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Keywords Education ; Instrumental Variable ; Mendelian Randomization ; Myopia ; Polygenic Risk Scores ; Refractive Error
Language english
Publication Year 2016
HGF-reported in Year 2016
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0741-0395
e-ISSN 1098-2272
Journal Genetic Epidemiology
Quellenangaben Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 66-72 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Wiley
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Institute of Epidemiology (EPI)
POF-Topic(s) 30202 - Environmental Health
Research field(s) Genetics and Epidemiology
PSP Element(s) G-504000-007
G-504090-001
DOI 10.1002/gepi.21936
WOS ID WOS:000366605700006
Scopus ID 84949671136
Scopus ID 84952873766
Erfassungsdatum 2016-01-01
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