Open AccessEvaluation of common variants in the CNR2 gene and its interaction with abdominal obesity for osteoporosis susceptibility in Chinese post-menopausal females
Author(s) -
Wenjie Zheng,
C. Liu,
Ming Lei,
Yang Han,
Xiaozhe Zhou,
C. Li,
Shaosong Sun,
Xiaoyong Ma
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bone and joint research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.639
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 2046-3758
DOI - 10.1302/2046-3758.811.bjr-2018-0284.r1
Subject(s) - osteoporosis , abdominal obesity , obesity , medicine , traditional medicine , endocrinology , bioinformatics , biology , metabolic syndrome
The objective of this study was to investigate the association of four single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the cannabinoid receptor 2 ( CNR2 ) gene, gene-obesity interaction, and haplotype combination with osteoporosis (OP) susceptibility.