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.
Aim: A previous study showed that individuals of Japanese descent affected by early onset familial Paget's disease of bone (PDB) carried a 27-bp duplication at position 75 (75dup27) in the TNFRSF11A gene encodin...
Project was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30570891, 30771019), Hospital Alliance Foundation and Program of Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist (No08XD14030).Acknowledgement We thank 2 anonymous reviewers for comments that improved the manuscript and will aid our future research.
Aim: Osteoclastic activity is mainly assessed by measurement of urinary markers (eg C-terminal cross-linked telopeptides of type I collagen, N-terminal cross- linked telopeptides of type I collagen etc), the levels...