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Genetic Factors Explain the Association Between Pain Catastrophizing and Chronic Widespread Pain.
The journal of pain - 1 Sept 2017
Ogata Soshiro, Williams Frances, Burri Andrea
Abstract excerpt
This study aimed to clarify whether there are shared genetic and/or environmental factors explaining the strong link between pain catastrophizing (PC) and chronic widespread pain (CWP). Data were available for N = 1,109 female twins from TwinsUK. Information on self-reported CWP and PC was subject to variance component twin analysis. Heritabilities were 40% for PC and 77% for CWP. The genetic correlation between...
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