European bone mineral density loci are also associated with BMD in East-Asian populations.

Most genome-wide association (GWA) studies have focused on populations of European ancestry with limited assessment of the influence of the sequence variants on populations of other ethnicities. To determine whether markers that we have recently shown to associate with Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in...

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Main Authors: Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Bjarni V Halldorsson, Daniel F Gudbjartsson, Nelson L S Tang, Jung-Min Koh, Su-mei Xiao, Timothy C Y Kwok, Ghi Su Kim, Juliana C N Chan, Stacey Cherny, Seung Hun Lee, Anthony Kwok, Suzanne Ho, Solveig Gretarsdottir, Jelena Pop Kostic, Stefan Th Palsson, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Pak C Sham, Beom-Jun Kim, Annie W C Kung, Shin-Yoon Kim, Jean Woo, Ping-C Leung, Augustine Kong, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Kari Stefansson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20949110/pdf/?tool=EBI