Twenty bone-mineral-density loci identified by large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.

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Published in Nat Genet on October 04, 2009

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Fernando Rivadeneira1, Unnur Styrkársdottir, Karol Estrada, Bjarni V Halldórsson, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, J Brent Richards, M Carola Zillikens, Fotini K Kavvoura, Najaf Amin, Yurii S Aulchenko, L Adrienne Cupples, Panagiotis Deloukas, Serkalem Demissie, Elin Grundberg, Albert Hofman, Augustine Kong, David Karasik, Joyce B van Meurs, Ben Oostra, Tomi Pastinen, Huibert A P Pols, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Nicole Soranzo, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Frances M K Williams, Scott G Wilson, Yanhua Zhou, Stuart H Ralston, Cornelia M van Duijn, Timothy Spector, Douglas P Kiel, Kari Stefansson, John P A Ioannidis, André G Uitterlinden, Genetic Factors for Osteoporosis (GEFOS) Consortium

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1: Department of Internal Medicine, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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