Article
Sex-stratified genome-wide association study of multisite chronic pain in UK Biobank.
PLoS genetics - 1 Apr 2021
Johnston Keira J A, Ward Joey, Ray Pradipta R, Adams Mark J, McIntosh Andrew M, Smith Blair H, Strawbridge Rona J, Price Theodore J, Smith Daniel J, Nicholl Barbara I, Bailey Mark E S
Abstract excerpt
Chronic pain is highly prevalent worldwide and imparts a significant socioeconomic and public health burden. Factors influencing susceptibility to, and mechanisms of, chronic pain development, are not fully understood, but sex is thought to play a significant role, and chronic pain is more prevalent in women than in men. To investigate sex differences in chronic pain, we carried out a sex-stratified genome-wide...
Topics
- Biological Specimen Banks
- Chronic Pain
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
