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Association of TNF-α polymorphism rs1800629 with multisomatoform disorder in a group of German patients and healthy controls: an explorative study.
Cytokine - 1 Feb 2013
Harms Katharina C, Kapitza Karl P, Pahl Lisa, Tran Anh-Thu, Volkmann Lilly, Buers Dennis, Karst Matthias, Stuhrmann Manfred, Bernateck Michael
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INTRODUCTION: The etiology of multisomatoform disorder (MSD) is still largely unknown, but genetic factors seem to have an influence on pathogenesis. Pain is a major symptom of MSD and polymorphisms of different proinflammatory cytokines have been found associated with pain in former studies. Therefore, we presumed that cytokine polymorphisms could also be associated with MSD. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Groups of 148...
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