Genome-wide association study meta-analysis of chronic widespread pain: evidence for involvement of the 5p15.2 region.
Peters MJ, Broer L, Willemen HL et al.
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Background and objectives: Chronic widespread pain (CWP) is a common disorder affecting ∼10% of the general population and has an estimated heritability of 48-52%. In the first large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis, we aimed to identify common genetic variants associated with CWP.
1,308 European ancestry female cases, 5,791 European ancestry female controls
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