Osteocalcin is necessary for the alignment of apatite crystallites, but not glucose metabolism, testosterone synthesis, or muscle mass

• Takeshi Moriishi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Ryosuke Ozasa,

  Roles Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Takuya Ishimoto,

  Roles Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Takayoshi Nakano,

  Roles Writing – review & editing, Visualization, Validation, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8052-1698

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• Tomoka Hasegawa,

  Roles Methodology, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology of Hard Tissue, Division of Oral Health Science, Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Toshihiro Miyazaki,

  Roles Methodology, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Wenguang Liu,

  Roles Methodology, Investigation

  Affiliations Basic and Translational Research Center for Hard Tissue Disease, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

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• Ryo Fukuyama,

  Roles Investigation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmacology, Hiroshima International University, Kure, Japan

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• Yuying Wang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Basic and Translational Research Center for Hard Tissue Disease, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, College of Life and Environmental Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

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• Hisato Komori,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Basic and Translational Research Center for Hard Tissue Disease, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6802-949X

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• Xin Qin,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Basic and Translational Research Center for Hard Tissue Disease, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Norio Amizuka,

  Roles Validation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology of Hard Tissue, Division of Oral Health Science, Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Toshihisa Komori

  Roles Visualization, Validation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: komorit@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Basic and Translational Research Center for Hard Tissue Disease, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0284-5723

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