[HTML][HTML] Genetically regulated gene expression in the brain associated with chronic pain: Relationships with clinical traits and potential for drug repurposing

KJA Johnston, AC Cote, E Hicks, J Johnson… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Chronic pain is a common, poorly understood condition. Genetic studies
including genome-wide association studies have identified many relevant variants, which …

Application of polygenic scores to a deeply phenotyped sample enriched for substance use disorders reveals extensive pleiotropy with psychiatric and somatic traits

EE Hartwell, Z Jinwala, J Milone, S Ramirez… - …, 2024 - nature.com
Co-occurring psychiatric, medical, and substance use disorders (SUDs) are common, but
the complex pathways leading to such comorbidities are poorly understood. A greater …

Repurposing antihypertensive drugs for pain disorders: a drug-target mendelian randomization study

K Du, A Li, CY Zhang, SM Li, P Chen - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objective Addressing the rising prevalence of pain disorders and limitations of current
analgesics, our study explores repurposing antihypertensive drugs for pain management …

Repurposing antihypertensive and statin medications for spinal pain: a Mendelian randomization study

P Suri, EE Elgaeva, FMK Williams, MB Freidin… - Spine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Mendelian randomization (MR) study. Objective. To examine whether
antihypertensive medications (beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, and angiotensin …

[HTML][HTML] A Multivariate Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals Neural Correlates and Common Biological Mechanisms of Psychopathology Spectra

C Davis, Y Khan, S Toikumo, Z Jinwala… - Research …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There is considerable comorbidity across externalizing and internalizing behavior
dimensions of psychopathology. We applied genomic structural equation modeling (gSEM) …