Hand bone midshaft enthesophytes: the influence of age, sex, and heritability

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1113-1119

  Kalichman, L ^a,b   Malkin, I ^b   Kobyliansky, E ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chuvashia; Enthesophytes; Hand bones; Heritability; Osteophytes; Skeletal aging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENTHESOPHYTE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENDER; HAND DISEASE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPHYTE; PATHOGENESIS; PEDIGREE; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAND BONES; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; OSTEOPHYTE; PHENOTYPE; RUSSIA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34548593199     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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