Genetic variants in grem2 are associated with bone mineral density in a southern Chinese population

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Cheung, Ching Lung ^a   Lau, Kam Shing ^a   Sham, Pak Chung ^a,b   Tan, Kathryn C B ^a   Kung, Annie W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Departments of Psychiatry   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GREM2 GENE; HIP; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BONE DENSITY; CHINA; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HIP; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPINE;

EID: 84883666418     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2013-1983     Document Type: Article

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