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Vitamin D and oestrogen receptor polymorphisms in developmental dysplasia of the hip and primary protrusio acetabuli – A preliminary study

Birender Kapoor, Colin Dunlop, Charles Wynn-Jones, Anthony A Fryer, Richard C Strange and Nicola Maffulli*

Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 2007, 6:7 doi:10.1186/1477-5751-6-7

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Association of a single nucleotide polymorphism in growth differentiate factor 5 with congenital dysplasia of the hip: a case-control study

Jin Dai, Dongquan Shi, Pengsheng Zhu, Jianghui Qin, Haijian Ni, Yong Xu, Chen Yao, Lunqing Zhu, Hongtao Zhu, Baocheng Zhao, Jia Wei, Baorui Liu, Shiro Ikegawa, Qing Jiang, Yitao Ding Arthritis Research & Therapy 2008, 10:R126 (24 October 2008)

In Han Chinese patients a single nucleotide polymorphism located in the promoter region of the GDF5 gene was significantly associated with congenital dysplasia of the hip, a common congenital skeletal abnormality.