Williams, Frances M. K., Spector, Tim D. and MacGregor, Alex J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2163-2325
(2010)
Pain reporting at different body sites is explained by a single underlying genetic factor.
Rheumatology, 49 (9).
pp. 1753-1755.
ISSN 1462-0332
Abstract
Musculoskeletal pain is reported commonly; however, the extent to which pain in individual body areas reflects the severity of site-specific pathology or a more generalized propensity to feel pain is uncertain. We used a classical twin design to examine the pattern of pain reporting at different body sites among monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins to assess its heritability and to examine evidence for a common underlying propensity to report musculoskeletal pain.
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