ReviewBone research2021
Twelve years of GWAS discoveries for osteoporosis and related traits: advances, challenges and applications.
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- Protective effects and mechanisms of puerarin in ovariectomized animal models of osteoporosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of preclinical studies.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Deep learning and genome-wide association meta-analyses of bone marrow adiposity in the UK Biobank.Nature communications · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of Genetics on Endocrine Manifestations of Cystic Fibrosis.Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists · 2026Review
- Osteoporosis genetic risk prediction using bone mineral density polygenic scores in Japanese: TMM CommCohort study.Journal of human genetics · 2026Article
- Mifepristone ameliorates osteoporosis & hyperlipidemia comorbidity through SPNS3-S1P-S1PR1 axis via regulating BMSCs differentiation.Journal of pharmaceutical analysis · 2026Article
- BHOD: a bone health optimized dietary pattern designed for osteoporosis prevention.NPJ science of food · 2026Article
- Multiscale analysis and functional validation of the cellular and genetic determinants of skeletal disease.Nature genetics · 2026Article
- A Bone-Protective Role for IFN-γ? Evidence from Genetic Association and Osteoblast Functional Assays in Postmenopausal Osteoporosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- BMAL1 Proteostasis, Circadian Dysfunction, and Ferroptotic Vulnerability in Osteoporosis: Current Evidence and Experimental Priorities.Calcified tissue international · 2026Review
- Meta-ERS: an exposome-based risk score using non-genetic factors to guide osteoporosis prevention.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
- Multiscale analysis and functional validation of the cellular and genetic determinants of skeletal disease.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Proxied therapeutic inhibition on sclerostin and atrial fibrillation risk.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Genomic structural equation modeling reveals the shared genetic architecture of osteosarcopenia across five musculoskeletal phenotypes.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2026Article
- Vitamin K-dependent carboxylation in osteoblasts regulates bone resorption through GAS6 in male mice.Bone research · 2026Article
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- Application of machine learning in osteoporosis screening: a narrative review.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Review
- PHEWAS, TWAS, Mendelian Randomization in Osteoporosis Research: the good, the bad, and the ugly.Current osteoporosis reports · 2026Review
- Multi-omics and causal inference reveal lactylation-based osteoblast regulatory networks and drug candidates.iScience · 2026Article
- Polygenic risk score-guided personalized osteoporosis screening: a population-based study.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Predictors of osteoporosis self-efficacy among young and middle-aged female nurses based on self-efficacy theory and the health belief model: evidence from a tertiary hospital in Eastern China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Osteoporosis is a common skeletal disease, affecting ~200 million people around the world. As a complex disease, osteoporosis is influenced by many factors, including diet (e.g. calcium and protein intake), physical activity, endocrine status, coexisting diseases and genetic factors. In this review, we first summarize the discovery from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in the bone field in the last 12 years. To date, GWASs and meta-analyses have discovered hundreds of loci that are associated with bone mineral density (BMD), osteoporosis, and osteoporotic fractures. However, the GWAS approach has sometimes been criticized because of the small effect size of the discovered variants and the mystery of missing heritability, these two questions could be partially explained by the newly raised conceptual models, such as omnigenic model and natural selection. Finally, we introduce the clinical use of GWAS findings in the bone field, such as the identification of causal clinical risk factors, the development of drug targets and disease prediction. Despite the fruitful GWAS discoveries in the bone field, most of these GWAS participants were of European descent, and more genetic studies should be carried out in other ethnic populations to benefit disease prediction in the corresponding population.
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