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…