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ArticleHGG advances2025

Chronic overlapping pain conditions and nociplastic pain.

Keira J A Johnston, Rebecca Signer, Laura M Huckins

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Rural specialty care for Veterans with the chronic overlapping pain conditions: Fibromyalgia, migraine, or irritable bowel syndrome.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2026
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  14. Developing the FIGO-IPPS "R U MOVVING SOMe" classification system for female chronic pelvic pain.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2025
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  20. Nociplastic pain: controversy of the concept.The Korean journal of pain · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Keira J A JohnstonDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Rebecca SignerDepartment of Genetic and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA.
Laura M HuckinsDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Electronic address: laura.huckins@yale.edu.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) are a subset of chronic pain conditions commonly comorbid with one another and more prevalent in women and individuals assigned female at birth (AFAB). Pain experience in these conditions may better fit with a new mechanistic pain descriptor, nociplastic pain, and nociplastic pain may represent a shared underlying factor among COPCs. We applied GenomicSEM common-factor genome-wide association study (GWAS) and multivariate transcriptome-wide association (TWAS) analyses to existing GWAS output for six COPCs in order to find genetic variation associated with nociplastic pain, followed by genetic correlation (linkage disequilibrium score regression), gene set, and tissue enrichment analyses. We found 24 independent single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and 127 unique genes significantly associated with nociplastic pain, and showed nociplastic pain to be a polygenic trait with significant SNP heritability. We found significant genetic overlap between multisite chronic pain and nociplastic pain, and to a smaller extent with rheumatoid arthritis and a neuropathic pain phenotype. Tissue enrichment analyses highlighted cardiac and thyroid tissue, and gene set enrichment analyses emphasized potential shared mechanisms in cognitive, personality, and metabolic traits and nociplastic pain along with distinct pathology in migraine and headache. We used a well-powered network approach to investigate nociplastic pain using existing COPC GWAS output, and show nociplastic pain to be a complex, heritable trait, in addition to contributing to understanding of potential mechanisms in development of nociplastic pain.

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Chronic PainFemaleGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMaleNociplastic PainPolymorphism, Single NucleotideTranscriptomechronic low back painchronic overlapping pain conditionsendometriosisfibromyalgiamigrainemultivariate GWASnociplastic paintemporomandibular joint disorder

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PMID39497418
PMCPMC11617767

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