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SUBMITTER: Hu X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5220521 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hu Xiaoyu X Jhun Ellie H EH Yao Yingwei Y He Ying Y Molokie Robert E RE Wilkie Diana J DJ Wang Zaijie J ZJ
Pharmacogenomics 20161124 18
<h4>Aim</h4>Pain is prevalent in sickle cell disease (SCD) patients who display great heterogeneity in pain severity and frequency. Hypothesizing that inflammatory factors are involved in the pathogenesis of SCD pain, we focused on the IL1A C/T polymorphism rs1800587 that is an SNP located in a cis-transcriptional regulatory region.<h4>Methods</h4>We genotyped IL1A rs1800587 and performed association studies with phenotype data obtained by a multidimensional pain assessment tool using the PAINRe ...[more]