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Susceptibility genes for osteoporotic fracture in postmenopausal Chinese women.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research - 1 Dec 2012
Wang Chun, Zhang Zeng, Zhang Hao, He Jin-Wei, Gu Jie-Mei, Hu Wei-Wei, Hu Yun-Qiu, Li Miao, Liu Yu-Juan, Fu Wen-Zhen, Yue Hua, Ke Yao-Hua, Zhang Zhen-Lin
Abstract excerpt
To identify the susceptibility genes for osteoporotic fracture in postmenopausal Chinese women, a two-stage case-control association study using joint analysis was conducted in 1046 patients with nontraumatic vertebra, hip, or distal radius fractures and 2303 healthy controls. First, 113 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 16 potential osteoporosis candidate genes reported in recent genomewide association...
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