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Genetic regulation of femoral bone mineral density: complexity of sex effect in chromosome 1 revealed by congenic sublines of mice.
Bone - 1 Sept 2007
Edderkaoui B, Baylink D J, Beamer W G, Shultz K L, Wergedal J E, Mohan S
Abstract excerpt
The findings that sex-specific effects on femoral structure and peak bone mineral density (BMD) are linked to quantitative trait loci (QTL) provide evidence for the involvement of specific genes that contribute to gender variation in skeletal phenotype. Based on previous findings that the BMD QTL...
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