Genetic epidemiology of osteoporosis: past, present, and future.

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Research during the past several decades has unequivocally established a role of heredity in the etiology of osteoporosis. Major efforts are currently underway to identify the genes and allelic variants that confer genetic susceptibility to this common and disabling condition. Genome-wide linkage mapping in families, candidate gene association studies in unrelated individuals, and quantitative trait locus mapping...

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