Bone Abstracts

Background: Recent technological ‘omics’ advances have empowered us to identify associations between genetic markers and various traits. Knowledge of serum metabolites as intermediary phenotypes can help us achieve a better understanding of the causal pathways from genes to complex diseases like osteoporosis.Methods: In the context of TwinsUK study, serum metabolomic profiles of 6055 participants were assessed using a non-targeted mass spectrom...