Disentangling the genetics of sarcopenia: prioritization of NUDT3 and KLF5 as genes for lean mass & HLA-DQB1-AS1 for hand grip strength with the associated enhancing SNPs & a scoring system

Abstract Background Sarcopenia is a skeletal muscle disease of clinical importance that occurs commonly in old age and in various disease sub-categories. Widening the scope of knowledge of the genetics of muscle mass and strength is important because it may allow to identify patients with an increas...

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Main Authors: Abhishek Narain Singh, Bili Gasman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:BMC Medical Genetics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12881-020-0977-6