Volume 79, Number 6, December 2007

Contents

Articles

Genetic Determination of Osteoporosis: Lessons Learned from a Large Genome-Wide Linkage Study
Dong-Hai Xiong, Jin-Tang Wang, Wei Wang, Yan-Fang Guo, Peng Xiao, Hui Shen, Hui Jiang, Yuan Chen, Hongyi Deng, Betty Drees, Robert R. Recker, and Hong-Wen Deng

Heritability of Brachydactyly Type A3 in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults from an Endogamous Population in Eastern Nepal
Kimberly D. Williams, John Blangero, Carol R. Cottom, Sharon Lawrence, Audrey C. Choh, Stefan Czerwinski, Miryoung Lee, Dana L. Duren, Richard J. Sherwood, Thomas D. Dyer, Bharat Jha, Janardan Subedi, Sarah Williams-Blangero, and Bradford Towne

Resemblance for Age at Menarche in Female Twins Reared Apart and Together
Nancy L. Segal and Joanne Hoven Stohs

Effect of Apolipoprotein E Genotype and Saturated Fat Intake on Plasma Lipids and Myocardial Infarction in the Central Valley of Costa Rica
Yadong Yang, Edward Ruiz-Narvaez, Peter Kraft, and Hannia Campos

Genetic Structure of La Cabrera, Spain, from Surnames and Migration Matrices
Alessio Boattini, María José Blanco Villegas, and Davide Pettener

Frequency and Origins of Hemoglobin S Mutationin African-Derived Brazilian Populations
Maria Teresa Balesterde Mello Auricchio, João Pedro Vicente, Diogo Meyer, and Regina Célia Mingroni-Netto

G6PD Deficient Alleles and Haplotype Analysis of Human G6PD Locus in São Tomé e Príncipe (West Africa)
Licínio Manco, Laura R. Botigué, M. Letícia Ribeiro, and Augusto Abade

Variants of the Mannose-Binding Lectin Gene in the Benin Population: Heterozygosity for the p.G57E Allele May Confer a Selective Advantage
Omer Placide Dossou-Yovo, Claudine Lapoumeroulie, Michelle Hauchecorne, Isabelle Zaccaria, Rolande Ducrocq, Rajagopal Krishnamoorthy, Mohamed Chérif Rahimy, and Jacques Elion

Brief Communications

ACE and LRPAP1 Insertion-Deletion Polymorphisms in a Northern Ivory Coast Population
A. Santovito, C. Bulgarello, G. A. Caravatti, M. Ouattará, P. Cervella, G.Pisano, B. Salvarani, and M. Delpero

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