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Pharmacogenetics in pain management: the clinical need.
Clinics in laboratory medicine - 1 Dec 2008
Webster Lynn R
Abstract excerpt
Genetic research heralds a new therapeutic approach to pain management. Increasing literature demonstrates individual genetic vulnerabilities to specific pain types and mechanisms, partially explaining differing responses to similar pain stimuli. Furthermore, analgesics demonstrate great variability among polymorphic genotypes. Family history and genotyping promise to play an important role in future pain...
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