The reply seems to fall under the "admit the limitations of the study so you can't be accused of ignoring them but then act like they don't...
Interestingly FOXP4 is mentioned in one study on the genetic overlap between Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and long covid:...
If you're curious what FOXP4 does: it's a transcription factor. That means it controls the expression of other genes. Little seems to be known...
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I think it's also a question of funding and putting in the work of replicating and refining the candidate biomarkers. If that had been done we...
Do you remember any details? I heard Ron Davis was given a NIH grant for studying the HLA genes and found some risk SNPs for ME/CFS. It should be...
Rereading the article I get the impression that the author is trying to say something about the importance of mental health while not having a...
This is so common in these articles. They want to say it's psychosomatic, encounter criticism, then redefine their own position into some vague...
As far as I know it's not uncommon for SNPs or genes to be associated with multiple distinct illnesses. Some illnesses believed to be distinct...
The thought of being able to find genes/SNPs involved in the disease causation is very exciting.
The odds of reaching the 20000 target seem good now. What does the DecodeME team think?
[MEDIA] Edited: It's a letter in response to Ludwig et al.
Digital biomarker? Subclinical depression? waitlist control? Is this an attempt to reach the lowest possible standards? A bit like a dive in the...
The benefit of spending time in nature is real although I'm not sure if it has any meaningful effect on an illness. In a pine/cypress forest that...
Both, but the ones that will also receive funding seem more important. With support from researchers a lot more pressure could be exerted to...
We need researchers to weigh in and tell us whether they agree with our concerns, and what they think could be done.
It's the patients that should decide what is disrespectful behaviour towards them and what is not.
And by assumed they mean "we interpret things that way because it creates jobs for us". One could also make very different interpretations.
How disappointing that the effect is so weak.
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