Clinical Trial: Genetic Regulators of Bone Health That Are Unique to Vertebral Bone
Study Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Recruit Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Condition: Age-Related Osteoporosis
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: Identification and Characterization of Genetic Regulators of Bone Health That Are Unique to Vertebral Bone.
Brief Summary:
Osteoporosis is an age related disease in which a person's bone slowly becomes weaker with time.The bones may become so weak that they break easily such as a fall from standing height.The most commonly broke bones in osteoporosis are those of the hip, the spine or the wrist.Osteoporosis runs in families meaning that genetic differences explain why some people break bones in old age and other do not.Genetic studies have been done that show the the genes associated with spine (vertebral) fractures (broken…
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