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Have little to add except that it looks really interesting. Made this summary of the results in case it is helpful to anyone. 1) Impressive study from Johns Hopkins researchers. They infected mice with SARS-CoV-2, found that female mice had a stronger immune response and more cognitive...

Yes, it's helpful in this regard. But also a bit disappointing that it then becomes a clash of eminence, and that the more detailed issues with methodology disappear in the background. Got the same impression with the Cochrane review and the Zeraatkar review on Long Covid.

Davenport et al. write: This isn't entirely on point IMHO. The test only took a couple of minutes, so the increasing symptoms and debility that patients experienced during the test should probably not be viewed as PEM. The term PEM is normally used to describe delayed worsening after the...

I think the focus on the 2-day CPET and deconditioning in the Davenport et al. letter is a bit besides the point. It would have been better if the journal had also published the other letter that focused on the problems with the EEfRt. Now Walitt et al. largely ignore these. The only info they...

On our blog, Paolo wrote: This is curious. When using the GenomicRanges and rtracklayer packages in R we only lost about 25.000 variants out of almost 9 million. FUMA/MAGMA report the same in the log file: “25262 positions did not align with the GRCh37 reference.”

Thanks, there's a section at the bottom with updates.

There's also this blog by Paolo Maccalini on the DecodeME results, focusing on the FUMA SNP2GENE analysis, which forestglip explored earlier in this thread. https://paolomaccallini.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/cell-type-analysis-of-decodeme-gwas-data/

Thanks. I misunderstood fine-mapping as a broad term encompassing gene prioritization (some tools and papers give that impression), but will update the text. Agree. If you click on one of the other SNPs with low p-value it does show the LD. Didn't mean to imply that a strong signal must mean...

Here's the social media summary for it: 1) We’ve just published our second instalment on the DecodeME results, this timing zooming in on the genes associated with ME/CFS. 2) The clearest signals point to genes such as CA10, SHISA6, SOX6, LRRC7, and DCC, which are involved in neuronal...

Second blog article on the DecodeME results, this time focusing on genes related to ME/CFS. https://mecfsscience.org/genes-pointing-to-the-brain-decodeme-part-ii/

The outcome measures are hard to interpret because the authors don't report variability or statistical tests.

Just noticed the video already has 170k views!

It depends on how you look at it. The 8 significant SNP signals were not seen before in the same pattern in depression or anxiety. There were however genes such as OLFM4 that are implicated in both depression and ME/CFS, even though the SNP pattern around it is different. In addition, the...

Thanks @EndME They are all the same color (gray) but I lowered the opacity so that if you see black ones it means there are multiple dots in a similar place overlapping each other. Think that having the same SNP signals, suggest the same genes as risk factors which points to similar biological...

This study doesn't warrant all this media attention. Wonder if the SMC is to blame for pushing this?

The team of Deborah Antcliff is an example of researchers applying to chronic pain interpretation of pacing and applying it to ME/CFS as if it didn't have a different meaning there. There is some discussion about it here: Tack 2022 - Pacing: one term, many meanings...

Perhaps simply a correlation matrix of the 8 alleles within the ME/CFS sample?

The summary data that DecodeME has made available doesn't include or allow for subgroup analyses. It doesn't include the raw data and questionnaire data to do this. So it will be up to the DecodeME team to publish more on this.

Thanks @Robert 1973

Updated, thanks!