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ArticleJournal of pain research2018

Association of genetic variation in

Yingze Zhang, Inna Belfer, Mehdi Nouraie, Qilu Zeng, Ruchika Goel, Yanxia Chu, Inna Krasiy, Lakshmanan Krishnamurti

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Article in Journal of pain research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Association of COMT rs4680 Genotype With Chronic Neuropathic Pain Experience in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2025
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  7. Evaluating Associations between Average Pain Intensity and Genetic Variation in People with Sickle Cell Disease: An Exploratory Study.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2023
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  9. Polymorphisms inGenes · 2022
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  10. HUMAN STUDYExperimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Yingze ZhangDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine.
Inna BelferDepartment of Human Genetics.
Mehdi NouraieDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine.
Qilu ZengDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine.
Ruchika GoelDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
Yanxia ChuDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine.
Inna KrasiyDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine.
Lakshmanan KrishnamurtiDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Pulmonary and Allergy Associates · USChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh · USCornell University · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundVaso-occlusive pain episodes (VOEs) are the hallmark of sickle cell disease (SCD), and our current understanding of disease biology, treatment, and psychological covariates does not adequately explain the variability of pain in SCD. Functional variants in catechol-

methodsWe studied

resultsIn women, two risk SNPs (rs4633 and rs165599) and the corresponding haplotype (A

conclusion

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catechol-O-methyltransferaseER visithaplotypeSNPVOE

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PMID29559808
PMCPMC5856032
OpenAlexW2790119313

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