Molecular mechanisms and emerging therapeutics for osteoporosis

JY Noh, Y Yang, H Jung - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Osteoporosis is the most common chronic metabolic bone disease. It has been estimated
that more than 10 million people in the United States and 200 million men and women …

Estrogens and androgens in skeletal physiology and pathophysiology

M Almeida, MR Laurent, V Dubois… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Estrogens and androgens influence the growth and maintenance of the mammalian
skeleton and are responsible for its sexual dimorphism. Estrogen deficiency at menopause …

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

Nature genetics, 2009 - nature.com
Bone mineral density (BMD) is a heritable complex trait used in the clinical diagnosis of
osteoporosis and the assessment of fracture risk. We performed meta-analysis of five …

Genetics of osteoporosis

SH Ralston, AG Uitterlinden - Endocrine reviews, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Osteoporosis is a common disease with a strong genetic component characterized by
reduced bone mass, defects in the microarchitecture of bone tissue, and an increased risk of …

Epidemiology and management of osteoporosis in the People's Republic of China: current perspectives

X Lin, D Xiong, YQ Peng, ZF Sheng… - … interventions in aging, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
With the progressive aging of the population, osteoporosis has gradually grown into a global
health problem for men and women aged 50 years and older because of its consequences …

Genetics of osteoporosis from genome-wide association studies: advances and challenges

JB Richards, HF Zheng, TD Spector - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Osteoporosis is among the most common and costly diseases and is increasing in
prevalence owing to the ageing of our global population. Clinically defined largely through …

Genome-wide association with bone mass and geometry in the Framingham Heart Study

DP Kiel, S Demissie, J Dupuis, KL Lunetta… - BMC medical …, 2007 - Springer
Background Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone mass and compromised bone
structure, heritable traits that contribute to fracture risk. There have been no genome-wide …

An integration of genome-wide association study and gene expression profiling to prioritize the discovery of novel susceptibility Loci for osteoporosis-related traits

YH Hsu, MC Zillikens, SG Wilson, CR Farber… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Osteoporosis is a complex disorder and commonly leads to fractures in elderly persons.
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become an unbiased approach to identify …

Gα13 negatively controls osteoclastogenesis through inhibition of the Akt-GSK3β-NFATc1 signalling pathway

M Wu, W Chen, Y Lu, G Zhu, L Hao, YP Li - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Many positive signalling pathways of osteoclastogenesis have been characterized, but
negative signalling pathways are less well studied. Here we show by microarray and RNAi …

Association of JAG1 with bone mineral density and osteoporotic fractures: a genome-wide association study and follow-up replication studies

AWC Kung, SM Xiao, S Cherny, GHY Li, Y Gao… - The American Journal of …, 2010 - cell.com
Bone mineral density (BMD), a diagnostic parameter for osteoporosis and a clinical predictor
of fracture, is a polygenic trait with high heritability. To identify genetic variants that influence …