Human genetics of osteoporosis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 723-735

  Ferrari, Serge ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bone; estrogen receptor; fracture; gene; GWAS; interleukin 6; LRP5; osteoporosis; osteoprotegerin; polymorphism; QTL; vitamin D receptor

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEIN 140; SCLEROSTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; COLLES FRACTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FALLING; FAMILY HISTORY; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RADIUS FRACTURE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPINE FRACTURE;

BONE DENSITY; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS;

EID: 57049168654     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2008.08.007     Document Type: Review

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