ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 21/07/20263) The analysis tests if genes associated with ME/CFS are more commonly used in certain tissues or cell types. You can also use other categories of genes, for example grouped based on biological function. 1142 0
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 21/07/20264) The graph below shows how powerful this technique is. It picks out the relevant cell type in multiple diseases: immune cells in rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, neurons in schizophrenia and epilepsy and pancreatic cells for diabetes. 1143 0
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 21/07/20265) These results were from a landmark 2018 study by Finucane et al. Adding ME/CFS to this analysis pipeline gives results that strongly point to the central nervous system. Using an immunological dataset (ImmGenn) gave no significant hits. 1141 0