ArticleBrain and behavior2025
Dissecting the Causal Association Between Bulimia Nervosa and Structural Brain Abnormalities: A Two-Sample Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study.
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backgroundDiverse correlations between structural brain abnormalities and the clinical feature of bulimia nervosa (BN) have been identified in previous observational studies.
objectiveTo explore the bidirectional causality between BN and brain structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) phenotypes.
methodsGenome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 2441 participants identified genetic variants associated with disordered eating and predicted BN, whereas UK Biobank 3D-T1 MRI data were used to analyze brain structural phenotypes. A bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach was used to investigate the causal relationships between BN and brain structural traits.
resultsThe forward MR analysis showed that BN exerted a significant causal effect on decreased volume of left nucleus accumbens area (NAc), decreased surface area (SA) of left inferior temporal gyrus, and increased cortical thickness (CT) of left planum temporale and right inferior temporal gyrus. In the reverse MR analysis, we found that right putamen volume, left hippocampus volume, and right planum temporale gyrus CT were positively associated with BN risk. Besides, SA of right inferior temporal gyrus and left lateral orbital gyrus and CT of left superior occipital gyrus were inversely correlated with BN risk.
conclusionOur findings confirmed the potential causal effects of BN on brain structure changes involving multiple functional regions and identified that genetically determined variation in specific brain structural regions could be causal for BN to some extent.
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