Powerful Bivariate Genome-Wide Association Analyses Suggest the SOX6 Gene Influencing Both Obesity and Osteoporosis Phenotypes in Males

Yao-Zhong Liu; Yu-Fang Pei; Jian-Feng Liu; Fang Yang; Yan Guo; Lei Zhang; Xiao-Gang Liu; Han Yan; Liang Wang; Yin-Ping Zhang; Shawn Levy; Robert R. Recker; Hong-Wen Deng

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006827

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Powerful Bivariate Genome-Wide Association Analyses Suggest the SOX6 Gene Influencing Both Obesity and Osteoporosis Phenotypes in Males

Yao-Zhong Liu,

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
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Yu-Fang Pei,

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
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Jian-Feng Liu,

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
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Fang Yang,

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
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Yan Guo,

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
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Lei Zhang,

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
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Xiao-Gang Liu,

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
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Han Yan,

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
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Liang Wang,

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
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Yin-Ping Zhang,

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
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Shawn Levy,

Affiliation Vanderbilt Microarray Shared Resource, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Robert R. Recker,

Affiliation Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
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Hong-Wen Deng

* E-mail: dengh@umkc.edu

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Center of Systematic Biomedical Research, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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Powerful Bivariate Genome-Wide Association Analyses Suggest the SOX6 Gene Influencing Both Obesity and Osteoporosis Phenotypes in Males

Yao-Zhong Liu,
Yu-Fang Pei,
Jian-Feng Liu,
Fang Yang,
Yan Guo,
Lei Zhang,
Xiao-Gang Liu,
Han Yan,
Liang Wang,
Yin-Ping Zhang

Published: August 28, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006827

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