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Trial By Error: Interview with Professor Chris Ponting on Building ME/CFS Research Infrastructure with PRIME

By David Tuller, DrPH This is a crowdfunding month for UC Berkekely and Trial By Error. If you’d like to support my work, here’s the link: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768(Donations are tax-deductible for US taxpayers.) ********** The UK Medical Research Council recently awarded £800,000 over four years to PRIME, a partnership between Action For ME and the University …

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Trial By Error: DecodeME Pre-Print Reports Eight “Genetic Signals” Related to Immune Function and Nervous System

By David Tuller, DrPH People with ME/CFS differ genetically from the general population, according to the long-awaited results of the largest biological study of the disease to date. By comparing DNA samples from more than 15,000 patients with ME/CFS diagnoses to samples from those who were not diagnosed, the investigators identified eight “genetic signals,” including …

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Trial By Error: Professor Chris Ponting Discusses His Recent Article in The Conversation about the Plight of ME/CFS patients

By David Tuller, DrPH October is a crowdfunding month at University of California, Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, you can make a donation to the university (tax-deductible for US taxpayers) here. In the last few years, geneticist Chris Ponting, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, has become a leading researcher in the …

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Trial By Error: Professor Chris Ponting Discusses on DecodeME’s First Results

By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Chris Ponting is a geneticist at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the principal investigator for DecodeME, a genome wide association study. The DecodeME team recently published findings from more than 17,000 questionnaires it had collected from patients. I wrote about those findings in a post last week. In …

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