Henry Heng, an American researcher has been funded by the National CFIDS Foundation adn Nancy Taylor Foundation for Chronic Diseases to discover whether overall genome instability rather than a specific molecular mechanism may cause chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome or CFIDS (an American term for ME/CFS).

Dr Heng will use  spectral karyotyping or SKY analysis, an advanced type of genomic testing to look for chromosomal aberrations or genomic instability in CFS/ ME patients.  Dr Heng believes scientists who have looked to single genes / mutations as the cause of diseases with complex sets of symptoms need to broaden their search to genomes.

Is overall genome instability cause of ME/CFS?