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Background: Sexual dimorphism in bone is well known;men tend to have higher peak bone mass than women.Using a progesterone receptor global knockout (PRKO) mouse model, our laboratory previously reported that PRKO mice displayed a high-bone-mass phenotype with increased bone formation in female and decreased bone resorption in males compared to Wild-type (WT) controls, resulting in higher peak bone mass in both genders.