Twelve years of GWAS discoveries for osteoporosis and related traits: advances, challenges and applications

X Zhu, W Bai, H Zheng - Bone research, 2021 - nature.com
Osteoporosis is a common skeletal disease, affecting~ 200 million people around the world.
As a complex disease, osteoporosis is influenced by many factors, including diet (eg calcium …

Osteoporosis: an update on screening, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment

SA Sabri, JC Chavarria, C Ackert-Bicknell… - …, 2023 - journals.healio.com
Osteoporosis screening, diagnosis, and treatment have gained much attention in the health
care community over the past 2 decades. During this time, creation of multispecialty …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics implicates overactive osteogenesis in the development of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis

A Sethi, JG Ruby, MA Veras, N Telis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a condition where adjacent vertebrae
become fused through formation of osteophytes. The genetic and epidemiological etiology …

Genomic inbreeding trends, influential sire lines and selection in the global Thoroughbred horse population

BA McGivney, H Han, LR Corduff, LM Katz, T Tozaki… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The Thoroughbred horse is a highly valued domestic animal population under strong
selection for athletic phenotypes. Here we present a high resolution genomics-based …

Osteoporosis: a long-term and late-effect of breast cancer treatments

CL Shapiro - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Osteoporosis is a prevalent condition affecting 200 million individuals
world-wide. Estimates are about one in three women will experience a fragility fracture of …

The genetic epidemiology of joint shape and the development of osteoarthritis

JM Wilkinson, E Zeggini - Calcified tissue international, 2021 - Springer
Congruent, low-friction relative movement between the articulating elements of a synovial
joint is an essential pre-requisite for sustained, efficient, function. Where disorders of joint …

Use of Mendelian randomization to examine causal inference in osteoporosis

J Zheng, M Frysz, JP Kemp, DM Evans… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Epidemiological studies have identified many risk factors for osteoporosis, however it is
unclear whether these observational associations reflect true causal effects, or the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Heterozygosity and homozygosity regions affect reproductive success and the loss of reproduction: A case study with litter traits in pigs

Z Chen, Z Zhang, Z Wang, Z Zhang, Q Wang… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Runs of heterozygosity (ROHet) and homozygosity (ROH) harbor useful information related
to traits of interest. There is a lack of investigating the effect of ROHet and ROH on …

Evolutionary insights into primate skeletal gene regulation using a comparative cell culture model

G Housman, E Briscoe, Y Gilad - PLoS genetics, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The evolution of complex skeletal traits in primates was likely influenced by both genetic and
environmental factors. Because skeletal tissues are notoriously challenging to study using …

Functional validation of osteoporosis genetic findings using small fish models

E Kague, D Karasik - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The advancement of human genomics has revolutionized our understanding of the genetic
architecture of many skeletal diseases, including osteoporosis. However, interpreting results …