Age at menarche and osteoporosis: a Mendelian randomization study

Q Zhang, J Greenbaum, WD Zhang, CQ Sun, HW Deng - Bone, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose Traditional epidemiological studies suggest that there is an association between
age at menarche (years)(AAM) and bone mineral density (BMD) at the sites of the femoral …

Genetic and environmental correlations between age at menarche and bone mineral density at different skeletal sites

Y Guo, LJ Zhao, H Shen, Y Guo, HW Deng - Calcified tissue international, 2005 - Springer
Low bone mineral density (BMD) is an important risk factor for osteoporotic fractures.
Though previous studies have demonstrated that age at menarche (AAM) is phenotypically …

Genetically determined later puberty impacts lowered bone mineral density in childhood and adulthood

DL Cousminer, JA Mitchell, A Chesi… - Journal of Bone and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Later puberty associates with lower areal bone mineral density (aBMD), and both are risk
factors for osteoporosis. However, the association between puberty timing–associated …

Bivariate genome-wide association analyses identified genes with pleiotropic effects for femoral neck bone geometry and age at menarche

S Ran, YF Pei, YJ Liu, L Zhang, YY Han, R Hai, Q Tian… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Femoral neck geometric parameters (FNGPs), which include cortical thickness (CT),
periosteal diameter (W), buckling ratio (BR), cross-sectional area (CSA), and section …

Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study

MC Magnus, MC Borges, A Fraser… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Age at natural menopause (ANM) is associated with a range of health-related traits,
including bone health, female reproductive cancers, and cardiometabolic health. Our …

Causal relationships between sex hormone traits, lifestyle factors, and osteoporosis in men: A Mendelian randomization study

H Wang, J Cheng, D Wei, H Wu, J Zhao - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Although observational studies have explored factors that may be associated with
osteoporosis, it is not clear whether they are causal. Osteoporosis in men is often …

Review of mendelian randomization studies on age at natural menopause

X Zhang, Z Huangfu, S Wang - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Menopause marks the end of the reproductive phase of life. Based on epidemiological
studies, abnormal age at natural menopause (ANM) is thought to contribute to a number of …

Chromosomal regions 22q13 and 3p25 may harbor quantitative trait loci influencing both age at menarche and bone mineral density

F Pan, P Xiao, Y Guo, YJ Liu, HY Deng, RR Recker… - Human genetics, 2008 - Springer
Late age at menarche (AAM), an important type of endocrinopathy in females, is associated
with lower bone mineral density (BMD), a major risk factor for osteoporosis. The correlation …

Birth weight is positively associated with adult osteoporosis risk: observational and Mendelian randomization studies

XH Yu, YY Wei, P Zeng, SF Lei - Journal of Bone and Mineral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The relationship between birth weight and osteoporosis was inconsistent in previous
observational studies. Therefore, we performed a systematic evaluation to determine the …

Identifying potential causal effects of age at menarche: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study

MC Magnus, AL Guyatt, RB Lawn, AB Wyss… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Age at menarche has been associated with various health outcomes. We aimed
to identify potential causal effects of age at menarche on health-related traits in a hypothesis …