Is osteoarthritis a genetic disease?

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Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common, disabling condition of diarthrodial joints. For over 60 years there has been evidence that inherited factors are important in its etiology. The research to identify these genetic factors has been driven by the need to establish markers of disease onset and progression to help clinical management and by the need to discover new disease targets for drug design. Both candidate gene...

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