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A Shared Genetic Signature for Common Chronic Pain Conditions and its Impact on Biopsychosocial Traits.
The journal of pain - 1 Mar 2023
Farrell Scott F, Kho Pik-Fang, Lundberg Mischa, Campos Adrián I, Rentería Miguel E, de Zoete Rutger M J, Sterling Michele, Ngo Trung Thanh, Cuéllar-Partida Gabriel
Abstract excerpt
The multiple comorbidities & dimensions of chronic pain present a formidable challenge in disentangling its aetiology. Here, we performed genome-wide association studies of 8 chronic pain types using UK Biobank data (N =4,037-79,089 cases; N = 239,125 controls), followed by bivariate linkage disequilibrium-score regression and latent causal variable analyses to determine (respectively) their genetic correlations...
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