Recent progress in understanding the genetic susceptibility to osteoporosis.

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Family and twin studies have established a genetic contribution to the etiology of osteoporosis. The genes and allelic variants conferring osteoporotic risk are largely undefined, but the number of candidates has increased steadily in recent years (Table I). Osteoporosis is a complex disease, and allelic variation in many other candidate-genes including those that encode growth factors, cytokines, calciotropic...

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