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The genetics of osteoporosis: ‘complexities and difficulties’

2000· review· en· W1572250583 on OpenAlex
Yves Giguère, François Rousseau

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Bibliographic record

VenueClinical Genetics · 2000
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBone health and osteoporosis research
Canadian institutionsUniversité LavalHôpital Saint-François d'Assise
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOsteoporosisGenome-wide association studyCandidate geneGeneticsGenetic associationBiologyAlleleDiseaseContext (archaeology)Locus (genetics)Single-nucleotide polymorphismBioinformaticsMedicineGeneInternal medicineEndocrinologyGenotype

Abstract

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Osteoporosis is characterized by a decrease in bone mass as well as a deterioration of the bone architecture resulting in an increased risk of fracture. Although the disease is multifactorial, twin studies have shown that genetic factors account for up to 80% of the variance in bone mineral density, the best known predictor of the risk of osteoporosis. Some loci, such as the vitamin D and estrogen receptor genes, as well as the collagen type Ialpha1 locus, are promising genetic determinants of bone mass, and possibly other bone phenotypes, but this is controversial and the molecular basis of osteoporosis remains largely undefined. Considering that the effect of each candidate gene is expected to be modest, discrepancies between allelic association studies may have arisen because different populations carry different genetic backgrounds and exposure to environmental factors. Also, we realize the importance of gene-gene as well as gene-environment interactions as significant determinants of bone density and risk of osteoporosis. The use of new tools such as small nucleotide polymorphism maps now allows the possibility to perform allelic association studies in the context of whole-genome search. However, specific study design strategies in large epidemiological studies as well as the best statistical approach will need to be established. We may expect the development of population-specific at-risk profiles for osteoporosis that would include genetic and environmental factors, as well as their interactions. This should eventually lead to better prevention strategies and more adapted therapies against osteoporosis.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.988
Threshold uncertainty score0.970

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.201
GPT teacher head0.484
Teacher spread0.283 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it