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Evidence of major gene control of cortical bone loss in humans.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2000
Karasik D, Ginsburg E, Livshits G, Pavlovsky O, Kobyliansky E
Abstract excerpt
Cortical index (CI) is the ratio of the combined cortical thickness to the total diameter of the bone. It serves for the assessment of the geometric properties of bone and for indirect evaluation of bone mass. CI is a useful predictor of osteoporosis. The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis of major gene control of CI variation in a large sample of pedigrees from Chuvashia, Russia. Complex...
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