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Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 56 bone mineral density loci and reveals 14 loci associated with risk of fracture

Journal article published in 2012 by Lm Yerges-Armstrong, Sg Wilson ORCID, Karol Estrada, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Evangelos Evangelou ORCID, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Jf Wilson, Evangelia Ee Ntzani, Ling Oei, Nm Van Schoor ORCID, Najaf Amin, Nls Tang, Mt Zarrabeitia, Guo Li, Ching-Ti Liu and other authors.
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Abstract

Bone mineral density (BMD) is the most widely used predictor of fracture risk. We performed the largest meta-analysis to date on lumbar spine and femoral neck BMD, including 17 genome-wide association studies and 32,961 individuals of European and east Asian ancestry. We tested the top BMD-associated markers for replication in 50,933 independent subjects and for association with risk of low-trauma fracture in 31,016 individuals with a history of fracture (cases) and 102,444 controls. We identified 56 loci (32 new) associated with BMD at genome-wide significance (P