Dr Hall looked for links between the placebo effect's strength and certain mutations, known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in which a single DNA "letter" in a gene is changed.

霍尔博士寻找了安慰剂效应强度和某些基因突变之间的联系，这些突变被称为“单核苷酸多态性”（SNPs），其基因中单个DNA的碱基“字母”序列发生改变。

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Paper author Dr Kathryn Hall, from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), said this gene had been chosen because "there has been increasing evidence that the neurotransmitter dopamine is activated when people anticipate and respond to placebos".

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