{"id":10527,"date":"2016-11-10T08:16:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T08:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=10527"},"modified":"2016-11-10T08:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T08:48:26","slug":"new-australian-genetic-marker-detection-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/new-australian-genetic-marker-detection-study\/","title":{"rendered":"New Australian genetic marker detection study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ME Research UK<\/strong>\u00a0blog post, 6 November 2016: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meresearch.org.uk\/news\/genetic-marker-detection\/\" target=\"_blank\">New study \u2013 Genetic marker detection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/researchers.anu.edu.au\/researchers\/lidbury-ba\" target=\"_blank\">Prof Brett Lidbury<\/a> and colleagues at the <a href=\"http:\/\/jcsmr.anu.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Curtin School of Medical Res<\/a>earch, Australian National University in Canberra are conducting an ongoing programme, funded by charities in Australia, which aims to find biomarkers for ME\/CFS using a range of sources \u2013 bioinformatics, genetics and pathological testing.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10576 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lidbury-Group-good.jpg?resize=680%2C350\" alt=\"lidbury-group-good\" width=\"680\" height=\"350\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lidbury-Group-good.jpg?w=680&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lidbury-Group-good.jpg?resize=150%2C77&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lidbury-Group-good.jpg?resize=300%2C154&amp;ssl=1 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 680px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 680\/350;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meresearch.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">ME Research UK<\/a> has provided funding to the group to acquire additional genetic data using DNA pooling. It will then be possible to apply machine learning techniques and statistical analyses to an integrated data set combining genetic, clinical and pathological information.<\/p>\n<p>As Prof Lidbury explained in a recent interview,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWe\u2019re looking for patterns in the data which can help with biomarker pattern detection and provide clues to disease mechanisms. With complex diseases like this, we need to look at many factors simultaneously, and cross-disciplinary studies are necessary to integrate the findings from different avenues of research investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong> at\u00a0MER UK&#8217;s\u00a0specific project page, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meresearch.org.uk\/our-research\/ongoing-studies\/genetic-marker-detection\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two dimensional sequencing and machine learning to maximise genetic marker detection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ME Research UK\u00a0blog post, 6 November 2016: New study \u2013 Genetic marker detection Prof Brett Lidbury and colleagues at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University in Canberra are conducting an ongoing programme, funded by charities in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/new-australian-genetic-marker-detection-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[752,726,1108,39,3270],"class_list":["post-10527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-biomarkers","tag-genes","tag-me-research-uk","tag-prof-brett-lidbury"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-2JN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10581,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions\/10581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}