Genes linked to chronic fatigue
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Australian scientists have identified 35 genes linked to chronic fatigue syndrome, helping narrow the focus of research on a little-understood condition affecting more than a million people in the U.S.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney screened 30,000 genes in blood samples from 15 people known to have had infectious mononucleosis, which can lead to chronic fatigue. Thirty-five of those genes were expressed differently in those who recovered promptly from the illness compared with those who went on to suffer months of physical and mental weakness, they reported Thursday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
