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Current evidence for a modulation of low back pain by human genetic variants.
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine - 1 Aug 2009
Tegeder Irmgard, Lötsch Jörn
Abstract excerpt
The manifestation of chronic back pain depends on structural, psychosocial, occupational and genetic influences. Heritability estimates for back pain range from 30% to 45%. Genetic influences are caused by genes affecting intervertebral disc degeneration or the immune response and genes involved in pain perception, signalling and psychological processing. This inter-individual variability which is partly due to...
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