Genetic modulation of the pharmacological treatment of pain.

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Inadequately treated acute and chronic pain remains a major cause of suffering and dissatisfaction in pain therapy. A cause for the variable success of pharmacologic pain therapy is the different genetic disposition of patients to develop pain or to respond to analgesics. The patient's phenotype may be regarded as the result of synergistic or antagonistic effects of several genetic variants concomitantly present...

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