The genetics of bone loss: Challenges and prospects

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1258-1268

  Mitchell, Braxton D ^a   Yerges Armstrong, Laura M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENOSUMAB; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE METABOLISM; BONE STRENGTH; BONE TURNOVER; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESR1 GENE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; HERITABILITY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIN28B GENE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MENOPAUSE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TMEM38B GENE;

BONE DENSITY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; OSTEOPOROSIS;

EID: 79955662605     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2010-2865     Document Type: Review

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