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. 2023 Aug 21;21:560. doi: 10.1186/s12967-023-04368-0

Table 2.

Sensitivity analysis of the causal association between PDEs proteins and psychiatric disorders

Exposure: outcome MR-Eegger_Intercept Egger_intercept_pvala IVW_Cochrane_Q IVW_Cochrane_Q_pvalb MR-PRESSO Pvaluec Steiger_testd
PDE1A: ASD − 0.0069 0.6478 7.6507 0.8656 0.8810 TRUE
PDE2A: SCZ 0.0031 0.7621 23.5793 0.4274 0.4560 TRUE
PDE2A: TS 0.0190 0.4677 15.6579 0.8695 0.8547 TRUE
PDE3A: MDD 0.0008 0.8631 33.4772 0.0412 0.0533 TRUE
PDE4D: MDD 0.0027 0.5590 13.0823 0.4415 0.4583 TRUE
PDE4D: SCZ − 0.0148 0.2230 18.0200 0.3227 0.3147 TRUE
PDE5A: TS − 0.1120 0.0648 10.8504 0.1453 0.1750 TRUE
PDE7A: ADHD − 0.0039 0.7274 16.6441 0.4787 0.4970 TRUE
OCD: PDE2A 0.0205 0.4210 6.1782 0.9861 0.9847 TRUE
OCD: PDE4D 0.0208 0.3611 18.0066 0.4552 0.5070 TRUE
OCD: PDE6D − 0.0065 0.7844 6.8627 0.9613 0.9477 TRUE
AN: PDE9A 0.0077 0.6651 21.5561 0.8014 0.8070 TRUE
AD: PDE7A − 0.0022 0.6965 67.5274 0.4247 0.4727 FALSE

Q Cochran’s Q statistics, IVW inverse-variance weighted, MR Mendelian randomization, MR-PRESSO MR pleiotropy residual sum and outlier, PDE phosphodiesterase, ASD autism spectrum disorder, SCZ schizophrenia, TS Tourette syndrome, MDD major depressive disorder, ADHD attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, OCD obsessive–compulsive disorder, AN anorexia nervosa, AD Alzheimer’s disease

aThe MR–Egger intercept quantifies the effect of directional pleiotropy (P < 0.05, which means possible directional pleiotropy)

bThe Cochrane—Q test quantifies the effect of heterogeneity (P < 0.05, which means possible heterogeneity, thus prioritizing “random—IVW” methods)

cMR-PRESSO test quantifies the effect of horizontal pleiotropy (P < 0.05, which means possible horizontal pleiotropy)

dMR-Steiger directionality test to assess the potential causal relationship (FALSE, which means an inverse causal link)