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SUBMITTER: Kung AW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2820171 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kung Annie W C AW Xiao Su-Mei SM Cherny Stacey S Li Gloria H Y GH Gao Yi Y Tso Gloria G Lau Kam S KS Luk Keith D K KD Liu Jian-min JM Cui Bin B Zhang Min-Jia MJ Zhang Zhen-lin ZL He Jin-wei JW Yue Hua H Xia Wia-bo WB Luo Lian-mei LM He Shu-li SL Kiel Douglas P DP Karasik David D Hsu Yi-Hsiang YH Cupples L Adrienne LA Demissie Serkalem S Styrkarsdottir Unnur U Halldorsson Bjarni V BV Sigurdsson Gunnar G Thorsteinsdottir Unnur U Stefansson Kari K Richards J Brent JB Zhai Guangju G Soranzo Nicole N Valdes Ana A Spector Tim D TD Sham Pak C PC
American journal of human genetics 20100121 2
Bone mineral density (BMD), a diagnostic parameter for osteoporosis and a clinical predictor of fracture, is a polygenic trait with high heritability. To identify genetic variants that influence BMD in different ethnic groups, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on 800 unrelated Southern Chinese women with extreme BMD and carried out follow-up replication studies in six independent study populations of European descent and Asian populations including 18,098 subjects. In the meta- ...[more]