Do motor control genes contribute to interindividual variability in decreased movement in patients with pain?

Bikash K Mishra^1,2 , Tianxia Wu³ , Inna Belfer^1,2 , Colin A Hodgkinson² , Leonardo G Cohen⁴ , Carly Kiselycznyk^1,2 , Albert Kingman³ , Robert B Keller⁵ , Qiaoping Yuan² , David Goldman² , Steven J Atlas⁶ and Mitchell B Max¹

¹  Clinical Pain Research Section, Laboratory of Sensory Biology, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA

²  Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Rockville, MD, USA

³  Statistics Core, Division of Population and Health Promotion Sciences, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA

⁴  Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Rockville, MD, USA

⁵  Maine Spine and Rehabilitation, Portland, ME, USA

⁶  General Medicine Division and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA