Variation in the MC4R Gene Is Associated with Bone Phenotypes in Elderly Swedish Women

• Gaurav Garg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Garg, Jitender Kumar, Fiona E. McGuigan

  Affiliation Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University and Department of Orthopaedics, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

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• Jitender Kumar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Garg, Jitender Kumar, Fiona E. McGuigan

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Fiona E. McGuigan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Garg, Jitender Kumar, Fiona E. McGuigan

  Affiliation Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University and Department of Orthopaedics, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

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• Martin Ridderstråle,

  Affiliation Clinical Obesity Research, Department of Endocrinology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

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• Paul Gerdhem,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Orthopaedics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Holger Luthman,

  Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

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• Kristina Åkesson

  * E-mail: Kristina.Akesson@med.lu.se

  Affiliation Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University and Department of Orthopaedics, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

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