Article
Familiality and partitioning the variability of femoral bone mineral density in women of child-bearing age.
Calcified tissue international - 1 Feb 1992
Sowers M R, Boehnke M, Jannausch M L, Crutchfield M, Corton G, Burns T L
Abstract excerpt
The contributions of polygenic loci and environmental factors to femoral bone mineral density (BMD) in g/cm2) variability were estimated in modified family sets consisting of women of child-bearing age. Femoral BMDs were measured in 535 women who were members of 137 family sets consisting minimally of an index, her sister, and unrelated female control. The family set could also include multiple sisters and first...
Topics
- Adult
- Analysis of Variance
- Bone Density
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Female
- Femur
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Osteoporosis