Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphism Predicts Height and Bone Size, Rather Than Bone Density in Children and Young Adults

Clinical longitudinal standards for height, weight, height velocity, weight velocity, and stages of puberty.

1976 • 3,064 citations

Prediction of bone density from vitamin D receptor alleles

1994 • 1,931 citations

Genetic determinants of bone mass in adults. A twin study.

1987 • 1,261 citations

Mice lacking the vitamin D receptor exhibit impaired bone formation, uterine hypoplasia and growth retardation after weaning

1997 • 1,149 citations

Continuing Positive Secular Growth Change in the Netherlands 1955–1997

2000 • 1,147 citations

Targeted ablation of the vitamin D receptor: An animal model of vitamin D-dependent rickets type II with alopecia

1997 • 933 citations

Adolescent Self-assessment of Sexual Maturation

1982 • 801 citations

Targeted ablation of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D 1α-hydroxylase enzyme: Evidence for skeletal, reproductive, and immune dysfunction

2001 • 623 citations

Genetic Factors in Determining Bone Mass

1973 • 586 citations

Role of peak bone mass and bone loss in postmenopausal osteoporosis: 12 year study.

1991 • 528 citations

Bone Mineral Density in Children and Adolescents: Relation to Puberty, Calcium Intake, and Physical Activity¹

1997 • 497 citations

Weight-bearing activity during youth is a more important factor for peak bone mass than calcium intake

1994 • 430 citations

Targeted Inactivation of the 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3-1α-Hydroxylase Gene (CYP27B1) Creates an Animal Model of Pseudovitamin D-Deficiency Rickets*

2001 • 385 citations

Reference data for bone density and body composition measured with dual energy x ray absorptiometry in white children and young adults

2002 • 355 citations

Vitamin D–Receptor Gene Polymorphisms and Bone Density in Prepubertal American Girls of Mexican Descent

1997 • 283 citations

A large-scale population-based study of the association of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms with bone mineral density

1996 • 243 citations

Determinants of body composition measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in Dutch children and adolescents

1997 • 227 citations

Determinants of Peak Bone Mass: Clinical and Genetic Analyses in a Young Female Canadian Cohort

1999 • 220 citations

Comparison of different models for interpreting bone mineral density measurements using DXA and MRI technology

1995 • 218 citations

Expression of bone-specific genes by hypertrophic chondrocytes: Implications of the complex functions of the hypertrophic chondrocyte during endochondral bone development

1996 • 216 citations

Genetics of Vitamin D 1α-Hydroxylase Deficiency in 17 Families

1998 • 189 citations

Hormonal Determinants and Disorders of Peak Bone Mass in Children¹

2000 • 166 citations

Vitamin D Receptor Gene Start Codon Polymorphisms (FokI) and Bone Mineral Density: Interaction with Age, Dietary Calcium, and 3′-End Region Polymorphisms

1998 • 164 citations

Effects of vitamin D metabolites on collagen production and cell proliferation of growth zone and resting zone cartilage cells in vitro

1989 • 140 citations

Interaction Between the Vitamin D Receptor Gene and Collagen Type Iα1 Gene in Susceptibility for Fracture

2001 • 134 citations

Symptomatic rickets in adolescence

2001 • 122 citations

Regulation of expression of the type I collagen genes

1993 • 121 citations

Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphism Is Associated with Birth Height, Growth to Adolescence, and Adult Stature in Healthy Caucasian Men: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study1

2000 • 81 citations

Association between Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphism and Sex-Dependent Growth during the First Two Years of Life¹

1997 • 77 citations

Vitamin D receptor alleles predict growth and bone density in girls Commentary

1998 • 64 citations

Common Polymorphism of the Vitamin D Receptor Gene is Associated with Variation of Peak Bone Mass in Young Finns

1996 • 64 citations

1,25(OH)2D3 receptor regulation and 1,25(OH)2D3 effects in primary cultures of growth cartilage cells of the rat

1991 • 62 citations

Role of 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol in growth-plate cartilage: inhibition of terminal differentiation of chondrocytes in vitro and in vivo.

1990 • 56 citations

Lack of Relationship between Vitamin D Receptor Genotype and Forearm Bone Gain in Healthy Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults1

1997 • 53 citations

Analysis of regulatory regions in the COL1A1 gene responsible for 1,25‐dihydroxyvitamin D₃‐mediated transcriptional repression in osteoblastic cells

1994 • 44 citations

Vitamin D Receptor Genotype is Not Associated with Bone Mineral Density in Three Ethnic/Regional Groups

1996 • 35 citations

Collagen Ia1 Polymorphism is Associated with Bone Characteristics in Caucasian Children and Young Adults

2002 • 21 citations

Genetic regulation of peak bone mass

1995 • 19 citations

Vitamin-D Receptor Genotype Does Not Predict Bone Mineral Density, Bone Turnover, and Growth in Prepubertal Children

1999 • 15 citations