Shengxian Shen, Mengyang Chu, Haijun Miao, Liang Li, Hui Fang, Xia Li, Zhenlai Zhu, Yaxing Bai, Jiaoling Chen, Jieyu Zhang, Shuai Shao, Erle Dang, Chen Zhang, Gang Wang, Hongjiang Qiao

Assessment of relationships between bullous pemphigoid and neurological diseases: A bidirectional two‐sample Mendelian randomization study

  • Dermatology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biochemistry
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AbstractBullous pemphigoid (BP) is the most prevalent autoimmune vesiculobullous skin illness that tends to affect the elderly. Growing evidence has hinted a correlation between BP and neurological diseases. However, existing observational studies contained inconsistent results, and the causality and direction of their relationship remain poorly understood. To assess the causal relationship between BP and neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease (PD), and stroke. A bidirectional two‐sample Mendelian randomization (MR) adopted independent top genetic variants as instruments from the largest accessible genome‐wide association studies (GWASs), with BP (n = 218 348), PD (n = 482 730), AD (n = 63 926), stroke (n = 446 696), and MS (n = 115 803). Inverse variance weighted (IVW), MR‐Egger, weighted mode methods, weighted median, and simple mode were performed to explore the causal association. Multiple sensitivity analyses, MR‐Pleiotropy Residual Sum and Outlier (PRESSO) was used to evaluate horizontal pleiotropy and remove outliers. With close‐to‐zero effect estimates, no causal impact of BP on the risk of the four neurological diseases was discovered. However, we found that MS was positively correlated with higher odds of BP (OR = 1.220, 95% CI: 1.058–1.408, p = 0.006), while no causal associations were observed between PD (OR = 0.821, 95% CI: 0.616–1.093, p = 0.176), AD (OR = 1.066, 95% CI: 0.873–1.358, p = 0.603), stroke (OR = 0.911, 95% CI: 0.485–1.713, p = 0.773) and odds of BP. In summary, no causal impact of BP on the risk of PD, AD, MS and stroke was detected in our MR analysis. However, reverse MR analysis identified that only MS was positively correlated with higher odds of BP, but not PD, AD and stroke.

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