Genetic markers for ancestry are correlated with body composition traits in older African Americans

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 733-741

  Shaffer, J R ^a   Kammerer, C M ^a   Reich, D ^b,c   McDonald, G ^b,c   Patterson, N ^c   Goodpaster, B ^d   Bauer, D C ^e   Li, J ^e   Newman, A B ^a   Cauley, J A ^a   Harris, T B ^f   Tylavsky, F ^g   Ferrell, R E ^a   Zmuda, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f National Institute of Aging   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture mapping; Body composition; Genetic ancestry; Linkage analysis; Osteoporosis; Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BONE DENSITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE; TRABECULAR BONE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 34247581737     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-006-0316-6     Document Type: Article

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