Sex and age of patients

Ethnicity of patients

Administered drug

Analyzed genes and their polymorphisms

Associations

Reference

Postmenopausal women; NA

Thai (Asian)

HRT

ERαPvuII

 

P allele: higher increase of
spinal BMD

[2]

Postmenopausal women; 47-56 years

Finnish (Caucasian)

HRT

ERα;  PvuII

 

P allele: reduced risk of fracture

[3]

Postmenopausal women; 40-64 years

Japanese (Asian)

HRT

ERα;  18 intronic SNPs

 

IVS6 + 14144 GG genotype:
higher increase of spinal BMD

[1]

Elderly postmenopausal women; 65-77 years

NA

HRT

ERα; PvuII, and  XbaI

 

PP and XX genotypes: higher increase of total body, spinal
and femoral BMD

[4]

Women; 40-64 years

Japanese
 (Asian)

HRT

ERα; PvuII, XbaI
VDR; TaqI, ApaI, FokI

               TT genotype: higher increase
of spinal BMD

[6]

Postmenopausal women; 46-54 years

Turkish (Caucasian)

HRT

COL1A1;  Sp1

SS genotype: higher increase
of spinal and femoral BMD

[7]

Postmenopausal osteoporotic women, NA

Korean
 (Asian)

HRT

LRP5; A266G, C3893T

T allele of C3893T: higher risk of non response in terms of lumbar spine and femoral neck BMD gain;
G allele of A266G:  higher risk of non response, in terms of lumbar spine BMD gain

[8]

Postmenopausal women; NA

Italian (Caucasian)

Raloxifene

VDR;  BsmI

 

BB genotype: higher increase of
spinal BMD

 

[9]

Postmenopausal women; NA

Brazilian

Raloxifene

ERα; PvuII, XbaI

PP and xx genotypes: better lumbar spine BMD response

[10]

Postmenopausal women; 56-73 years

Slovenian (Caucasian)

Etidronate

VDR; BsmI

 

bb genotype: lower increase
of spinal BMD

[11]

Postmenopausal women; NA

Italian (Caucasian)

Five treatment groups:
1) Alendronate plus raloxifene
2) Alendronate plus HRT
3) Alendronate alone
4) HRT alone
5) Raloxifene alone

VDR; BsmI

 

 

 

bb genotype: lower increase
of spinal  BMD

[12]

Early postmenopausal women;  NA

NA

Etidronate

COL1A1; Sp1

 

 

SS genotype: higher increase
of femoral BMD

[13]

Postmenopausal osteoporotic women; NA

Chinese
(Asian)

Alendronate

OPG; A163G, T245G, T950C

G allele of A163G: lower increase at vertebral L2-4, inter-troche and total hip BMD.
G allele of T245G:lower increase at vertebral L2-4, inter-troche and total hip BMD.

[16]

NA = not available
Table 1: Pharmacogenetic studies of osteoporosis.