中国组织工程研究 ›› 2025, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (5): 1081-1090.doi: 10.12307/2025.292

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免疫细胞与膝骨关节炎之间因果作用:一项两样本双向孟德尔随机化分析

吴广涛1,秦  刚2,何凯毅2,范以东1,李威材1,朱宝刚1,曹  英1   

  1. 1广西中医药大学,广西壮族自治区南宁市  530222;2广西中医药大学第一附属医院,广西壮族自治区南宁市  530022


  • 收稿日期:2024-01-15 接受日期:2024-02-27 出版日期:2025-02-18 发布日期:2024-06-04
  • 通讯作者: 秦刚,博士,主任医师,广西中医药大学第一附属医院,广西壮族自治区南宁市 530022
  • 作者简介:吴广涛,男,1998年生,广西壮族自治区北海市人,汉族,广西中医药大学在读硕士,主要从事骨关节退变与缺血性疾病的防治研究。
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金项目(81860793,82360939),项目负责人:秦刚;广西自然科学基金项目(2020GXNSFAA297140),
    项目负责人:秦刚;“国医大师韦贵康学术思想与临床治疗传承发展研究中心”资助项目(2022V001)

Causal relationship between immune cells and knee osteoarthritis: a two-sample bi-directional Mendelian randomization analysis 

Wu Guangtao1, Qin Gang2, He Kaiyi2, Fan Yidong1, Li Weicai1, Zhu Baogang1, Cao Ying1     

  1. 1Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning 530222, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China; 2The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning 530022, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
  • Received:2024-01-15 Accepted:2024-02-27 Online:2025-02-18 Published:2024-06-04
  • Contact: Qin Gang, MD, Chief physician, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
  • About author:Wu Guangtao, Master candidate, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning 530222, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, China
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China, Nos. 81860793 and 82360939 (both to QG); Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, No. 2020GXNSFAA297140 (to QG); Research Center for the Inheritance and Development of Wei Guikang’s Academic Thought and Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment, No. 2022V001

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文题释义:
膝骨关节炎:是一种影响关节及其周围组织的慢性疾病,主要与关节软骨、滑膜及周围组织损伤有关,临床特征包括压痛、关节疼痛、活动受限、积液和炎症。
孟德尔随机化:是一种遵循孟德尔遗传定律的遗传变量分析,利用单核苷酸多态性作为工具变量,来推断观察到的可改变的暴露因素与临床相关结果之间关联的因果关系的分析方法,用于评估因果关系。

背景:膝骨关节炎是一种常见的关节软骨及周围组织损伤的慢性炎症性疾病,而免疫细胞在膝骨关节炎免疫炎症反应中起到重要作用,但其中的具体机制仍有待深入研究。
目的:采用孟德尔随机化方法来评估731种免疫细胞表型与膝骨关节炎风险之间的潜在因果关系。
方法:使用全基因组关联分析(GWAS)目录中公开获取731种免疫细胞表型的全基因组关联分析统计数据(从GCST0001391到GCST0002121)和IEUGWAS数据库中膝骨关节炎的全基因组关联分析数据(ebi-a-GCST007090)。采用逆方差加权法、MR-Egger回归法、加权中位数法、加权模型法和简单模型法来研究免疫细胞与膝骨关节炎之间的因果关系。敏感性分析用于检验孟德尔随机化分析结果是否可靠,然后以同样方法进行反向孟德尔随机化分析。
结果与结论:①正向分析结果表明,共有4种免疫细胞表型与膝骨关节炎有显著的因果关系(FDR < 0.20),其中B细胞中的CD27 on CD24+CD27+(OR=1.026,P=0.000 26,Pfdr=0.18)、髓系细胞中的CD33 on CD33dim HLA DR-(OR=1.014,P=0.000 50,Pfdr=0.18)以及Treg细胞中的CD45RA+CD28-CD8br %CD8br(OR=1.001,P=0.000 78,Pfdr=0.18)与膝骨关节炎风险呈直接的正向因果关联;单核细胞中PDL-1 on monocyte (OR=0.952,P=0.000 98,Pfdr=0.18)与膝骨关节炎风险呈直接的负向因果关联。②反向分析结果表明,当膝骨关节炎作为暴露数据时,与731种免疫细胞表型均不具有显著因果关系(FDR < 0.20)。③敏感性分析结果显示:双向孟德尔随机化的Cochran’s Q检验和MR-Egger回归法结果P值均大于0.05,表明免疫细胞表型与膝骨关节炎之间的因果效应分析不存在显著的异质性和多效性。④上述结果证实,CD27 on CD24+CD27+,CD33 on CD33dim HLA DR-,CD45RA+CD28-CD8br %CD8br以及PDL-1 on monocyte免疫细胞表型与膝骨关节炎之间可能具有较为显著的潜在因果关系,这为研究膝骨关节炎的生物学机制及探索膝骨关节炎的早期防治提供有价值的线索,也为干预性药物的开发提供了新的方向。
https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8757-7559(吴广涛)

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:组织构建;骨细胞;软骨细胞;细胞培养;成纤维细胞;血管内皮细胞;骨质疏松;组织工程

关键词: 骨关节炎, 膝骨关节炎, 免疫机制, 免疫细胞, 孟德尔随机化, 因果关系, 全基因组关联分析, 逆方差加权法, 敏感性分析

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common chronic inflammatory disease that causes damage to joint cartilage and surrounding tissues. Immune cells play an important role in the immune-inflammatory response in knee osteoarthritis, but the specific mechanisms involved are still not fully understood. 
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the potential causal relationship between 731 immune cell phenotypes and the risk of knee osteoarthritis using Mendelian randomization. 
METHODS: Summary statistics of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for 731 immune cell phenotypes (from GCST0001391 to GCST0002121) obtained from the GWAS catalog and GWAS data for knee osteoarthritis from the IEUGWAS database (ebi-a-GCST007090) were used. Inverse variance-weighted method, MR-Egger regression, weighted median method, weighted mode method, and simple mode method were employed to investigate the causal relationship between immune cells and knee osteoarthritis. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to assess the reliability of the Mendelian randomization results. Reverse Mendelian randomization analysis was also performed using the same methods. 
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The forward MR analysis indicated significant causal relationships (FDR < 0.20) between knee osteoarthritis and four immune cell phenotypes, namely CD27 on CD24+CD27+ in B cells (OR=1.026, P=0.000 26, Pfdr=0.18), CD33 on CD33dim HLA DR- in myeloid cells (OR=1.014, P=0.000 50, 
Pfdr=0.18), and CD45RA+CD28-CD8br %CD8br in Treg cells (OR=1.001, P=0.000 78, Pfdr=0.18), and PDL-1 on monocytes in mononuclear cells (OR=0.952, P=0.000 98, Pfdr=0.18). These immune cell phenotypes showed direct positive or negative causal associations with the risk of knee osteoarthritis. Reverse Mendelian randomization analysis revealed no significant causal relationships (FDR < 0.20) between knee osteoarthritis as exposure and any of the 731 immune cell phenotypes. The results of sensitivity analysis show that the P-values of the Cochran’s Q test and the MR-Egger regression method for bidirectional Mendelian randomization were both greater than 0.05, indicating that there is no significant heterogeneity and pleiotropy in the causal effect analysis between immune cell phenotypes and knee osteoarthritis. To conclude, there may be four potential causal relationships between immune cell phenotypes, such as CD27 on CD24+CD27+ cells, CD33 on CD33dim HLA DR- cells, CD45RA+CD28-CD8br %CD8br cells, and PDL-1 on monocytes, and knee osteoarthritis. These findings provide valuable clues for studying the biological mechanisms of knee osteoarthritis and exploring early prevention and treatment strategies. They also offer new directions for the development of intervention drugs.


Key words: osteoarthritis, knee osteoarthritis, immune mechanism, immune cell, Mendelian randomization, causal relationship, genome-wide association analysis, inverse variance-weighted method, sensitivity analysis

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