• Rare SLC13A1 variants associate with intervertebral disc disorder highlighting role of sulfate in disc pathology 

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      Back pain is a common and debilitating disorder with largely unknown underlying biology. Here we report a genome-wide association study of back pain using diagnoses assigned in clinical practice; dorsalgia (119,100 cases, ...