heritability

Are mothers with ME more likely to have children with ME than fathers with ME are? I've always wondered about this, partly because it is true in my own family, and have seen others suggest it might be true (most recently Fereshteh Jahaniani in the NIH genetics webinar), but I can't seem to find...

Abstract In a national cohort of 12,788 adolescents, those reporting parents experiencing ongoing problems from COVID-19 had 1.79-fold (95%CI: 1.58-2.02) higher odds of experiencing LONG COVID 6 months after a SARS-CoV-2 PCR-test than those reporting parents without ongoing symptoms...

Clarifying the causes of consistent and inconsistent findings in genetics Saloni Dattani, David M. Howard, Cathryn M. Lewis, Pak C. Sham Abstract As research in genetics has advanced, some findings have been unexpected or shown to be inconsistent between studies or datasets. The reasons these...

I'm looking for evidence for a genetic component in ME/CFS and a discussion of the quality of evidence for each the studies. Here are some I found after a quick search (haven't read them all), are there important ones missing? Hickie et al. 2001. A Twin Study of the Etiology of Prolonged...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/veterans-debilitating-gulf-war-syndrome-13911872

I just wanted to highlight a paper that came out today in Nature Genetics: Lakhani et al. (“Repurposing large health insurance claims data to estimate genetic and environmental contributions in 560 phenotypes”). In this study, they used very large health insurance claims data to compare whether...