Chronic Pain Could Have a Unique Genetic Basis in Women – ScienceAlert

A sweeping meta-analysis of data from the United Kingdom Biobank has found a different genetic basis for chronic pain in women compared to men.
The results are still preliminary, but to date, this is one of the largest genetic studies on chronic pain to analyze the female and male sex separately.
“Our study highlights the importance of considering sex as a biological variable and showed subtle but interesting sex differences in the genetics of chronic pain,” says population geneticist Keira Johnston…

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