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Contribution of genotype and ethnicity to bone mineral density variation in Caucasians and Chinese: a test for five candidate genes for bone mass.
Chinese medical journal - 5 Aug 2005
Dvornyk Volodymyr, Liu Peng-yuan, Long Ji-rong, Zhang Yuan-yuan, Lei Shu-feng, Recker Robert R, Deng Hong-wen
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BACKGROUND: Ethnicity is shown to be one of important factors affecting bone mineral density (BMD). The present study was performed to compare the association of six markers for five candidate genes with BMD variation in two populations of different ethnicity, Caucasian and Chinese, and the contribution of genotype and ethnicity to this variation in the populations. METHODS: The studied restriction fragment...
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