Author(s)

Isabel Navarro-Vera^1,2, José Antonio Casajús³, Manuel J. López-Pérez^1,4*, Carmen Díez-Sánchez¹

¹Departamento de Bioquímica, Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
²Departamento de Genética Molecular, Citogen, Zaragoza, Spain.
³Departmento de Fisiatría y Enfermería, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y el Deporte, Universidad de Zaragoza. Zaragoza, Spain.
⁴Departamento de Bioquímica, Biología Molecular y Celular—Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER)—Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón (IISA), Zaragoza, Spain.

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex, chronic condition, which causes widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue and a variety of other symptoms. Many polymorphisms related to neuroendocrine system function as the ApoE isoforms, Val158Met polymorphism in COMT, as well as a 44 bp deletion located in 5-HTTLPR, have been studied. Other polymorphisms have been related to inflammatory response such as the 70 bp VNTR in IL-4 or to citokine levels. Furthermore, some studies focused on finding out new FM related SNPs, have been performed by genome wide association scan (GWAS). The target of this work was to study a possible linkage of a collagen type I polymorphism (COL1A1 rs180012 SNP) affecting bone mineralization, with fibromyalgia. Results obtained show a clear association of ss homozygous genotype with FM patients no dependent on bone mineralization.

Fibromyalgia, Genotype, Collagen, Bone Mineral Density, SP1

Navarro-Vera, I. , Casajús, J. , López-Pérez, M. and Díez-Sánchez, C. (2018) Association of COL1A1 rs180012 SNP and Fibromyalgia Suggests the Implication of Collagen Structure in Musculoskeletal Pain. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 9, 83-89. doi: 10.4236/abb.2018.92007.