Genetic predisposition for femoral neck stress fractures in military conscripts

BMC Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Korvala, Johanna ^a   Hartikka, Heini ^a   Pihlajamäki, Harri ^b,c   Solovieva, Svetlana ^d   Ruohola, Juha Petri ^c   Sahi, Timo ^c,e   Barral, Sandra ^f   Ott, Jürg ^g   Ala Kokko, Leena ^a,h   Männikkö, Minna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c CENTRE FOR MILITARY MEDICINE   (Finland)

^d FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^g Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^h Connective Tissue Gene Tests ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARMY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS FRACTURE; GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOLDIER;

ADULT; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FRACTURES, STRESS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958075820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-11-95     Document Type: Article

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