The search for human osteoporosis genes.

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Osteoporosis is the most prevalent metabolic bone disease and a major clinical and public health problem. Heredity plays an important and well-established role in determining the lifetime risk of this disease. Major efforts are currently underway to identify the specific genes and their allelic variations that contribute to the heritable component to osteoporosis. A number of laboratories are using quantitative...

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