Association between a literature-based genetic risk score and bone mineral density of African American women in Women Health Initiative Study.
X XiaoQing WuPublished in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2019)
Genetic risk score was significantly associated with lower BMD in the current study, suggesting that SNPs discovered from prior meta-analysis based on primarily Caucasian population can also explain a considerable proportion of BMD variation in African Americans.