Different SNP combinations in the GCH1 gene and use of labor analgesia.

Molecular Pain
Fatimah DaboHelena Akerud

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate if there is an association between different SNP combinations in the guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase (GCH1) gene and a number of pain behavior related outcomes during labor. A population-based sample of pregnant women (n = 814) was recruited at gestational week 18. A plasma sample was collected from each subject. Genotyping was performed and three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) previously defined as a pain-protective SNP combination of GCH1 were used. Homozygous carriers of the pain-protective SNP combination of GCH1 arrived to the delivery ward with a more advanced stage of cervical dilation compared to heterozygous carriers and non-carriers. However, homozygous carriers more often used second line labor analgesia compared to the others. The pain-protective SNP combination of GCH1 may be of importance in the limited number of homozygous carriers during the initial dilation of cervix but upon arrival at the delivery unit these women are more inclined to use second line labor analgesia.

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Citations

Sep 14, 2012·Molecular Pain·Ulrika HeddiniUlrika Johannesson
Sep 24, 2015·Archives of Women's Mental Health·Fatimah Dabo PetterssonInger Sundström-Poromaa
Aug 27, 2013·Clinics in Perinatology·Ruth Landau
Apr 25, 2012·Reproductive Sciences·Fatimah Dabo PetterssonHelena Åkerud
Mar 16, 2019·Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology·Leila KafshdoozHojjat Pourfathi
Jul 23, 2020·Frontiers in Neuroscience·Ananda Staats PiresAlexandra Latini
Jun 20, 2018·Scandinavian Journal of Pain·Arafat Nasser, Lisbeth Birk Møller

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