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IL21R and PTH may underlie variation of femoral neck bone mineral density as revealed by a genome-wide association study.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research - 1 May 2010
Guo Yan, Zhang Li-Shu, Yang Tie-Lin, Tian Qing, Xiong Dong-Hai, Pei Yu-Fang, Deng Hong-Wen
Abstract excerpt
Bone mineral density (BMD) measured at the femoral neck (FN) is the most important risk phenotype for osteoporosis and has been used as a reference standard for describing osteoporosis. The specific genes influencing FN BMD remain largely unknown. To identify such genes, we first performed a genome-wide association (GWA) analysis for FN BMD in a discovery sample consisting of 983 unrelated white subjects. We then...
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