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T-1213C polymorphism of estrogen receptor beta is associated with low bone mineral density and osteoporotic fractures.
Bone - 1 Nov 2006
Kung Annie W C, Lai Billy M H, Ng Mandy Y M, Chan Vivian, Sham Pak C
Abstract excerpt
Osteoporosis is a complex disease with a strong genetic component, but the genes involved are poorly defined. To determine whether estrogen receptor beta (ESR2) gene is an osteoporosis risk gene, we examined its association with bone mineral density (BMD) and fracture risk. Using a gene-based approach, a set of 12 polymorphisms of ESR2 was studied in 752 case-control pairs of southern Chinese in ethnicity. Among...
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