Genome-wide association studies of skeletal phenotypes: What we have learned and where we are headed

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Hsu, Yi Hsiang ^a,b   Kiel, Douglas P ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AXIN1 GENE; BAYES THEOREM; BONE DENSITY; BONE METABOLISM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLCN7 GENE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CSF1 GENE; CTNNB1 GENE; DKK1 GENE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EFFECT SIZE; ESR1 GENE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAM3C GENE; FOREARM FRACTURE; FOXC2 GENE; FOXL1 GENE; FRACTURE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMICS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HIP; HIP FRACTURE; HOXC6 GENE; HUMAN; JAG1 GENE; LRP4 GENE; LRP5 GENE; MEF2C GENE; MEFE GENE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; OSSIFICATION; PKDCC GENE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTH GENE; PTHLH GENE; REVIEW; RSPO3 GENE; RUNX2 GENE; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SFRP4 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOST GENE; SOX4 GENE; SOX6 GENE; SOX9 GENE; SP7 GENE; SPINE; SPINE FRACTURE; SPP1 GENE; SPTBN1 GENE; TGFBR3 GENE; TNFRSF11 GENE; TNFRSF11B GENE; WLS GENE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WNT16 GENE; WNT3 GENE; WNT4 GENE; WNT5B GENE; BONE; BONE DISEASE; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84867266661     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-1890     Document Type: Review

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