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Investigating the role of pain-modulating pathway genes in musculoskeletal pain.
European journal of pain (London, England) - 1 Jan 2013
Holliday K L, McBeth J, Macfarlane G, Huhtaniemi I T, Bartfai G, Casanueva F F, Forti G, Kula K, Punab M, Vanderschueren D, Wu F C, Thomson W
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: The aim of this study was to determine if genetic variation in the pain-modulating gene DREAM and its pathway genes influence susceptibility to reporting musculoskeletal pain in the population. METHODS: Pairwise tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DREAM, PDYN and OPRK1 were genotyped in a UK population-based discovery cohort in whom pain was assessed using blank body manikins at three time points....
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