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Genetic determination of variation and covariation of peak bone mass at the hip and spine.
Journal of clinical densitometry : the official journal of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry - 1 Jan 1999
Deng H W, Stegman M R, Davies K M, Conway T, Recker R R
Abstract excerpt
The likelihood of low trauma fracture in the elderly is highly predictable by peak bone mass (PBM) at age approximately 25-50 yr. We estimated the magnitude of genetic determination of the variation and covariation of PBM of the spine and hip (adjusted by age, gender, and ethnicity) in 47 independent healthy full-sib pairs and 27 healthy mother-offspring pairs. For the spine and hip, the narrow-sense...
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