Neuropathic pain phenotyping by international consensus (NeuroPPIC) for genetic studies: a NeuPSIG systematic review,

Oliver van Hecke1, Peter R Kamerman, Nadine Attal

  • 1Division of Population Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa INSERM U-987, Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, CHU Ambroise Paré, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Boulogne-Billancourt, France Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, Versailles, France Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Department of Neurology, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany deCODE Genetics/Amgen, Reykjavík, Iceland Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Academic Unit of Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom The Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Zentrum für Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Schmerztherapie und Palliativmedizin, Benedictus Krankenhaus, Tutzing, Germany Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Technische Universität München, München, Germany Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland Mutual Insurance Company Etera, Helsinki, Finland Department of Clinical Medicine, Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA Pain Research, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital campus, London, United Kingdom Pain Phenomics and Genomics Lab, University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Department of Neurology, Technion Faculty of Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel (O. van Hecke is now with Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom).

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|October 16, 2015
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