Research Catalog

Title

The genetics of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease / edited by Michael J. Econs.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

Econs, Michael J.

Description

xi, 462 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Bone Diseases, Metabolic > genetics
• Bones > Genetic aspects
• Genetic Diseases, Inborn
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Genetic disorders
• Osteoporosis > Genetic aspects
• Osteoporosis > genetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Variance in Bone Size, Mass, and Volumetric Density of the Proximal Femur / Ego Seeman -- 2. How to Determine If, and by How Much, Genetic Variation Influences Osteoporosis / John L. Hopper -- 3. Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphisms and Bone Mineral Homeostasis / Serge Ferrari, Rene Rizzoli and Jean-Philippe Bonjour -- 4. Type I Collagen Polymorphisms and Osteoporosis / Stuart H. Ralston -- 5. Osteogenesis Imperfecta / Paul A. Dawson and Joan C. Marini -- 6. Vitamin D-Dependent Rickets Type I and Type II / Sachiko Kitanaka and Shigeaki Kato -- 7. Inherited Phosphate Wasting Disorders / Michael J. Econs and Kenneth E. White -- 8. X-Linked Nephrolithiasis/Dent's Disease and Mutations in the C1C-5 Chloride Channel / Steven J. Scheinman and Rajesh V. Thakker -- 9. Genetics of Tumoral Calcinosis / Kandaswamy Jayaraj and Kenneth Lyles -- 10. Fibrous Dysplasia and the McCune - Albright Syndrome / Lee S. Weinstein --
• 11. The Molecular Basis for Parathyroid Hormone Resistance in Pseudohypoparathyroidism / Michael A. Levine -- 12. Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva / Eileen M. Shore, John G. Rogers and Roger Smith / [et al.] -- 13. Disorders Resulting from Inactivating or Activating Mutations in the Ca[superscript 2+][subscript 0]-Sensing Receptor / Edward M. Brown -- 14. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 (MEN1) / Rajesh V. Thakker -- 15. The Ret Signaling System and Its Role in Hereditary Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma / Robert F. Gagel and Gilbert Cote -- 16. Genetics of Paget's Disease of Bone / Frederick R. Singer and Robin J. Leach -- 17. Osteopetrosis / L. Lyndon Key, Jr. -- 18. Hypophosphatasia / Michael P. Whyte -- 19. Jansen and Blomstrand: Two Human Chondrodysplasias Caused by PTH/PTHrP Receptor Mutations / Harald Juppner and Caroline Silve -- 20. Genetic Linkage Analysis in Human Disease / Suzanne M. Leal and Marcy C. Speer --
• 21. The Identification of Disease Genes in a Candidate Region / Fiona Francis and Tim M. Strom -- 22. Finding Mutations in Disease Genes / Peter S. N. Rowe.

ISBN

0896037029 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99058332

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries