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Association study of parathyroid hormone gene polymorphism and bone mineral density in Japanese postmenopausal women.
Calcified tissue international - 1 Mar 1999
Hosoi T, Miyao M, Inoue S, Hoshino S, Shiraki M, Orimo H, Ouchi Y
Abstract excerpt
Association of BST B1 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of the parathyroid hormone (PTH) gene with bone mineral density (BMD) was examined in 383 healthy postmenopausal women in Japan who were unrelated. The RFLP was represented as B or b, the capital letter signifying the presence of and the small letter the absence of restriction site for BST B1. The frequency of each genotype-BB, Bb, and bb-was...
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