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SUBMITTER: Styrkarsdottir U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2951352 | biostudies-literature | 2010
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20101007 10
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 Europeans also associate with BMD in East-Asians we analysed 50 markers from 23 genomic loci in samples from Korea (n = 1,397) and two Chinese Hong Kong sample sets (n = 3,869 and n = 785). Through th ...[more]