The pain protective haplotype: Introducing the modern genetic test

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1007-1009

  Klein, Roger D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I;

ALCOHOLISM; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PATIENT SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PROGNOSIS; RADICULOPATHY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 34249880553     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2007.087056     Document Type: Editorial

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