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Month: June 2018

Dr Ron Davis’s big immune study is looking at HLA genes. Here’s why.

Dr Ron Davis’s big immune study is looking at HLA genes. Here’s why.

Dr Ron Davis has won a large NIH (US National Institutes of Health) grant for an immunology project with a strong focus on HLA genes. Which may have led some to wonder, ‘What are they?’ HLA (human leukocyte antigen) molecules play a critical role in the immune system, particularly by activating T cells. There is a huge amount of variation in the HLA genes that different people have, and Davis’s theory is that certain types of HLA genes could increase the…

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Analysis of data from 500,000 individuals in UK Biobank demonstrates an inherited component to ME/CFS

Analysis of data from 500,000 individuals in UK Biobank demonstrates an inherited component to ME/CFS

Guest blog by Professor Chris Ponting and colleagues. UK Biobank – a national biobank different from the ME/CFS biobank – has data from around 500,000 individuals, including both healthy people and those with one or more of the many different diseases in the UK population. About 2,000 people in the sample reported that they had been given a diagnosis of CFS. Analysis of data from this biobank indicates an inherited biological component for ME/CFS. The results show only one statistically…

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