Jemal
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New article by Amy Dockser Marcus. It has a comment from Alter.
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/06...on-cfs-xmrv-link-what-about-related-research/
So Alter is sure that even if the contaministst blow the WPI out of the water, his study still stands. That's good to know, we have a fall back scenario (though I still believe in the WPI results).
Through an NIH spokesperson, Alter replies that the PNAS paper did not link XMRV to chronic fatigue syndrome but rather the larger family of polytropic murine leukemia viruses to which XMRV belongs. The paper never reported finding XMRV itself. Thus the finding that XMRV may be a contaminant traced to cancer cells in mice does not pertain to the finding published in PNAS, Alter says.
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/06...on-cfs-xmrv-link-what-about-related-research/
So Alter is sure that even if the contaministst blow the WPI out of the water, his study still stands. That's good to know, we have a fall back scenario (though I still believe in the WPI results).