Age-dependent genetic regulation of osteoarthritis: independent effects of immune system genes.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateResearch involving animal tissue was assessed and approved by the University of Western Australia Animal Ethics Committee (Approval #: RA/3/500/87). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Funding for this work was provided by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Project Grant 1127156, Ideas Grant 2003629). This study also received support from the Department of Health Western Australia (Merit Award 1186046) and the iVEC/Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (with funding from the Australian Government and the Government of Western Australia; Project Grants: Director2025 (S.G.W.)). The salary of B.H.M. was supported by a Raine Medical Research Foundation Priming Grant."