Genetic and environmental determinants on bone loss in postmenopausal Caucasian women: A 14-year longitudinal twin study

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 949-953

  Zhai, G ^a   Andrew, T ^a   Kato, B S ^a   Blake, G M ^b   Spector, T D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BMD; Bone loss; Genetics; Longitudinal; Twin study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CAUCASIAN; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OSTEOLYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; BONE DENSITY; DISEASES IN TWINS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FOREARM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 67349139650     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-008-0751-7     Document Type: Article

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