genetics

https://www.nature.com/collections/zbpsndwbnq/

New blog at ME/CFS Research Review Dr Ron Davis has won a large NIH (US National Institutes of Health) grant for an immunology project with a strong focus on HLA genes. Which may have led some to wonder, ‘What are they?’ HLA (human leukocyte antigen) molecules play a critical role in the...

May be of interest. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0238-4 Abstract Viral infections continue to represent major challenges to public health, and an enhanced mechanistic understanding of the processes that contribute to viral life cycles is necessary for the development of new...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/06/13/feature/devastated-by-als-trying-to-save-others/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.65cc16c53602&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nih-seeks-health-data-of-1-million-people-with-genetic-privacy-suddenly-an-issue/2018/05/01/cb38a588-4d4b-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html

The article, https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-genetic-foundation-migraines.amp The paper, https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30322-2

More at the link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-04-unprecedented-genetic-factors-major-depression.html

Note: the UK Biobank is not the same as the UK ME/CFS Biobank. Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03819-3

This is an amazing project: a plan to build the Google Maps of the human body, as The Atlantic put it. MISSION of the HUMAN CELL ATLAS To create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells—the fundamental units of life—as a basis for both understanding human health and diagnosing...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/health/genetic-mutations-diagnosis.html?referer=https://getpocket.com/recommendations "With a database of electronic health records and DNA samples, a team of scientists has found that 3.7 percent of patients in a hospital system carried a genetic variant...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29486769 https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-018-1414-x

It claims to have looked at twins with one twin with CFS but talks about Chronic Fatigue, so how useful to us this could be is questionable. Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18585-3

foxp3 is relevant for MS could other fox genes be relevant for me/cfs I never see this mentioned and think it might be worth a look https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/2017/07/07/foxp3-gene-mutations-may-cause-aggressive-immune-system-responses-in-multiple-sclerosis-other-diseases/...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29231630 More at the links below. English: http://tidsskriftet.no/en/2017/12/debatt/tenuous-link-between-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-pyruvate-dehydrogenase-deficiency Norwegian...

Mentioned by Dr Alain Moreau in his webinar this evening - I think people can be from any country. I imagine the contact details are as in this post about his twin study.

Dr Moreau just mentioned this in this evening's webinar:

Read the rest here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/15/scientists-make-first-ever-attempt-at-gene-editing-inside-the-body?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other