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Genotyping takes us closer to an osteoporosis fingerprint
MEDIA RELEASE:
30 Apr 2008
Garvan collaborated with the Icelandic genetics company, deCode, in an extensive multi-nation genome-wide search to find the genes linked to osteoporosis and fracture. Five regions of interest have been identified that appear to warrant further scientific investigation.
Osteoporosis: Men told to watch their step
25 Jan 2007
Garvan scientists say that men need to realise osteoporosis is not just a disease of elderly women and that once men over the age of 60 have had a fracture, around one in three will have broken another bone within just a few years.
