| Literature DB >> 17457512 |
Donghai Xiong1, Wei Wang1,2, Yuan Chen3, Hui Jiang3, Hong-Wen Deng4,5,6.
Abstract
The onset age of fracture may be useful to explore the clinical and genetic heterogeneity of fracture study. In the present study, we investigated the heritability of the onset age of wrist fracture (OAWF) in 30 female full-sib pairs. The phenotypic correlation coefficient of OAWF was 0.309 (P=0.09) for this cohort of female sib pairs, and the narrow-sense heritability (h2) was estimated to be 0.618 (P=0.09). In addition, the h2 derived from the variance component model implemented in SOLAR was 0.722 (P<0.05). This study, for the very first time, suggested that OAWF is under genetic control and thus potentially helps clarify genetic heterogeneity of wrist fracture.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17457512 DOI： 10.1007/s10038-007-0141-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Hum Genet ISSN： 1434-5161 Impact factor: 3.172