Lumbar vertebral and femoral neck bone mineral density are higher in postmenopausal women with the alpha 2HS-glycoprotein 2 phenotype.

doi:10.1016/s0169-6009(08)80135-3

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Lumbar vertebral and femoral neck bone mineral density are higher in postmenopausal women with the alpha 2HS-glycoprotein 2 phenotype.

Bone and mineral - 1 Mar 1994

Dickson I R, Gwilliam R, Arora M, Murphy S, Khaw K T, Phillips C, Lincoln P

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alpha 2HS-glycoprotein (AHSG) is a plasma protein which becomes concentrated in the organic matrix of bone. The two most common alleles, AHSG*1 and AHSG*2, give rise to three common phenotypes. A recent report showed that a group of postmenopausal white North American women with different AHSG ph...

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Aged
Blood Proteins
Bone Density
Estradiol
Female
Femur Neck
Humans
Lumbar Vertebrae
Middle Aged
Phenotype
Postmenopause
alpha-2-HS-Glycoprotein

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