title: Letter to the Editor concerning "Association between IGF1 gene single nucleotide polymorphism (rs5742612) and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a meta-analysis" by M. Guan et al. (Eur Spine J; 2016. doi:10.1007/s00586-016-4742-7).
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, China. yongzhao_zhao@163.com.
authors.forename: Yongzhao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, China.
authors.forename: Yanjie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, China.
authors.forename: Guangyue
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I; D007738:Kyphosis; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D012600:Scoliosis
chemical_list: C583557:IGF1 protein, human; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I