From the desk of Dr. Alain Moreau, PhD
Director of the Collaborative Research Center
at the CHU Sainte-Justine/Université de Montréal
#TripleGivingTuesday Research Update
Montréal ME/CFS Research Center Paper
Published in Scientific Reports
On behalf of Open Medicine Foundation (OMF), I am pleased to share that an article authored by my research team at the OMF Funded ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center (CRC) at Université de Montréal has been published online by Scientific Reports!
You might remember in my last update from the Research Center at Montréal, I shared a brief update about this study, entitled “Profile of circulating microRNAs in myalgic encephalomyelitis and their relation to symptom severity, and disease pathophysiology,” and our groundbreaking discovery and validation of different microRNAs associated with ME/CFS.
MicroRNAs can represent potential indicators for diseases such as ME/CFS, and changes in microRNA expression could indicate cellular dysfunction and degeneration. Using a test to induce mild-but-reproducible Post Exertional Malaise (PEM), our team has so far uncovered and validated 11 different microRNAs associated with ME/CFS that are capable of differentiating ME/CFS patients from healthy patients — wit 90 percent accuracy!
This post-exertional stress challenge provoking PEM in ME/CFS patients has helped us gain unprecedented insight into the pathophysiology of ME/CFS. Based on the 11 different microRNA signatures discovered in ME/CFS, machine learning algorithms have also led to the classification of ME/CFS patients into four clusters associated with symptom severity.
These exciting results could lead to the development of a new, non-invasive diagnostic test for ME/CFS, a prognostic tool used to predict future cases, and identification of effective treatment options.
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