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Lean mass plays a gender-specific role in familial resemblance for femoral neck bone mineral density in adult subjects.
Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA - 1 Jan 2006
Blain H, Vuillemin A, Jeandel C, Jouanny P, Guillemin F, Le Bihan E
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INTRODUCTION: Whether the femoral neck bone mineral density (FN BMD) of children may be better predicted from that of their parents when taking into account the anthropometry of the children was assessed in a healthy adult sample consisting of 86 mother-daughter, 32 mother-son, 32 father-daughter, and 23 father-son pairs from 128 families. Heritability for FN BMD, which is considered to be a measurement of...
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