Ethnic disparities in fracture risk assessment using polygenic scores.

Xiangxue XiaoQing Wu

Published in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2023)

These results showed that PGSs based on common BMD-related genetic variants discovered in the European ancestry cohort are predictive of fracture risk in people of Asian but not African ancestry.

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hip fracture
genome wide association study
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