The genetics of osteoporosis: 'Complexities and difficulties'

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 161-169

  Giguère, Yves ^b   Rousseau, François ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bone density; Genetic; Osteoporosis; Polymorphism; Review

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2 GLYCOPROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW;

AGED; ALLELES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0342748629     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2000.570301.x     Document Type: Review

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