Acknowledgements The study was supported by grants from the project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81170803, 81070692, 81000360, and 30800387), Shanghai Rising-star Program (11QA1404900), Shanghai Natural Science Foundation (11ZR1427300), STCSM10DZ1950100, and Academic Leaders in Health Sciences in Shanghai (XBR2011014).
Aim: Myostatin gene is a member of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family that negatively regulates skeletal muscle growth. Genetic polymorphisms in Myostatin were found to be associated with the peak bo...
Acknowledgements This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No 30800387, 30771019, 81070692, 81170803), Academic Leaders in Health Sciences in Shanghai (XBR2011014), STCSM10DZ1950100, Science and Technology commission of Shanghai municipality (11ZR1427300) and Shanghai Rising Star Project (No 11QA1404900).
Aim: To compare the effects of cholecalciferol (800 IU/d) and calcitriol (0.25 pg/d) on calcium metabolism and bone turnover in Chinese postmenopausal women with vitamin D insufficiency. Methods: One hundred Chi...
Acknowledgements The study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No 30570891, 30771019, and 30800387) and Program of Shanghai Chief Scientist (No 08XD1403000).
Aim: To determine the associations between HOXD4 gene polymorphisms with peak bone mineral density (BMD) throughing measuring three tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (tagSNPs), including rs1867863, rs134180...
Acknowledgements The study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No 30570891, 30771019, and 30800387) and Program of Shanghai Chief Scientist (Project No 08XD1403000). We wish to thank three anonymous reviewers for comments that helped to improve the manuscript and our future research.
Aim: The goal of this study was to determine whether polymorphisms in the vitamin D receptor (VDR) and estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) genes are associated with variations of peak bone mineral density (BMD) and ...
Acknowledgements This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30570891, 30771019, and 30800387) and the Program of Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist (No08XD1403000), We thank the patients for their participation.
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