Genetic and environmental variances of bone microarchitecture and bone remodeling markers: A twin study

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 516-524

  Bjørnerem, Åshild ^a   Bui, Minh ^b   Wang, Xiaofang ^c   Ghasem Zadeh, Ali ^c   Hopper, John L ^b   Zebaze, Roger ^c   Seeman, Ego ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone microarchitecture; Females; Heritability; Porosity; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORTICAL BONE; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTRACORTICAL POROSITY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; POROSITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE; TRABECULAR VOLUMETRIC BONE MINERAL DENSITY; BONE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MIDDLE AGED; TWINS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; BIOMARKERS; BONE AND BONES; BONE REMODELING; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84922896690     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: 15234681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.2365     Document Type: Article

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