Category: Chris Ponting
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DecodeME Pre-Print Reports Eight “Genetic Signals” Related to Immune Function and Nervous System
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 ones relating to immune…
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Professor Chris Ponting Discusses His Recent Article in The Conversation about the Plight of ME/CFS patients
In the last few years, geneticist Chris Ponting, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, has become a leading researcher in the field of ME/CFS. He is the principal investigator of DecodeME, a large gene-wide association study funded with a major grant from the UK’s Medical Research Council. This week, he published a commentary in…
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Professor Chris Ponting Discusses on DecodeME’s First Results
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. In our conversation, Professor Ponting discussed these results, why it is important to have patients…