DecodeME

DecodeME¹ is a genome-wide association study of people with ME/CFS. It is the largest ME/CFS study ever performed. It is lead by Professor Chris Ponting.

External Links

• Link to study home page
• Link to preprint
• Interview of Chris Ponting by David Tuller
• Home page of SequenceME, a follow-up whole-genome sequencing study that is currently fundraising.

Tasks

See here for tasks pertaining to DecodeME.

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1. Genetics Delivery Team, Thibaud Boutin, Andrew D Bretherick, Joshua J Dibble, Esther Ewaoluwagbemiga, Emma Northwood, Gemma L Samms, Veronique Vitart, Project, Cohort Delivery Team, Øyvind Almelid, and others. Initial findings from the DecodeME genome-wide association study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. medRxiv, pages 2025–08, 2025. URL: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.06.25333109v1. ↩