About the Authors
- Yao-Zhong Liu
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
- Scott G. Wilson
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Affiliations School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia and Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairder Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Liang Wang
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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
- Xiao-Gang Liu
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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
- Yan-Fang Guo
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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
- Jian Li
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
- Han Yan
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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
- Panos Deloukas
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Affiliation Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Nicole Soranzo
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Affiliations Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Usha Chinnapen-Horsley
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Alesandra Cervino
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Frances M. Williams
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Dong-Hai Xiong
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Affiliation Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
- Yin-Ping Zhang
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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
- Tian-Bo Jin
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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
- Shawn Levy
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Affiliation Vanderbilt Microarray Shared Resource, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Christopher J. Papasian
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
- Betty M. Drees
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
- James J. Hamilton
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
- Robert R. Recker
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Affiliation Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
- Tim D. Spector
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Affiliation Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Hong-Wen Deng
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* 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, Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HWD. Performed the experiments: LW HY PD NS UCH AC FMW DX YZ TJ SEL. Analyzed the data: XL YG JL YP. Wrote the paper: YZL. Provided data for in-silico replication of GWAS: SGW. Contributed data for in silico replication: TDS. Helped revise the paper: TDS RR JPH BMD CP SGW.