About the Authors

Concetta Dagostino

cdagostino@parmanesthesia.com

Affiliation Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Unit, Division of Surgical Sciences, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Manuela De Gregori

Affiliation PainTherapy Service, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Christian Gieger

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Judith Manz

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Ivan Gudelj

Affiliation Genos, Glycoscience Research Laboratory, Zagreb, Croatia

Gordan Lauc

Affiliation Genos, Glycoscience Research Laboratory, Zagreb, Croatia

Laura Divizia

Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, Division of Pneumology, Department of Molecular Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Wei Wang

Affiliation School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia

Moira Sim

Affiliation School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia

Iain K. Pemberton

Affiliation IP Research Consulting SASU (PHOTEOMIX) - Rex de Chaussée, Noisy le Grand, France

Jane MacDougall

Affiliation IP Research Consulting SASU (PHOTEOMIX) - Rex de Chaussée, Noisy le Grand, France

Frances Williams

Affiliation Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Jan Van Zundert

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium

Dragan Primorac

Affiliations St. Catherine Specialty Hospital, Zabok, Croatia, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia, University of Osijek School of Medicine, Osijek, Croatia, Children's Hospital Srebrnjak, Zagreb, Croatia

Yurii Aulchenko

Affiliation PolyOmica, Groningen, The Netherlands

Leonardo Kapural

Affiliation Carolinas Pain Institute, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Massimo Allegri

Affiliation Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Unit, Division of Surgical Sciences, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

on behalf of the PainOmics Group

Membership of the PainOmics Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors stated that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this article. MA has received consultant fees or research grants from Grünenthal, Angelini, Mundipharma, MSD and Care Fusion. GL has multiple patents in the field of glycoscience issued. IKP and JMD are scientific directors of Photeomix, the commercial name of IP Research Consulting SAS, who have ongoing patent applications and trademarks related to Activomics. YA is a director and co-owner of Maatschap PolyOmica, which provides (consulting) services in the area of (statistical) (gen)omics. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CD MA MDG. Data curation: CD. Formal analysis: YA. Funding acquisition: MA. Investigation: CD. Methodology: CD MDG YA. Project administration: CD. Resources: CD MDG CG JM IG GL LD WW MS IKP JMD FW JVZ DP YA LK MA. Supervision: MA CG GL WW IKP FW JVZ DP. Validation: CD MDG CG JM IG GL IKP JMD. Visualization: CD MDG CG JM IG GL LD WW MS IKP JMD FW JVZ DP YA LK MA. Writing – original draft: CD. Writing – review & editing: CD MDG CG JM IG GL LD WW MS IKP JMD FW JVZ DP YA LK MA.