Recent advances in the understanding of genetic susceptibility to chronic pain and somatic symptoms

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 521-527

  Holliday, Kate L ^a   McBeth, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Chronic widespread pain; Fibromyalgia; Genetic susceptibility; Genetics; Heritability; Low back pain; Polymorphism; Somatic symptoms; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV9.1; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.7; TRANSCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADRB2 GENE; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMT GENE; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GCH1 GENE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HERITABILITY; HTR2A GENE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; KSCN1 GENE; MC2R GENE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OPRM1 GENE; POMC GENE; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SAMPLE SIZE; SCN9A GENE; SERPINA6 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLC6A4 GENE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

CHRONIC PAIN; FIBROMYALGIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; NOCICEPTIVE PAIN; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 80755136554     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-011-0208-4     Document Type: Article

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