Thanks Cort...
This was news to me...
"With XMRV it was important to differentiate it from all the other mouse retroviruses that are in the family of the gamma retroviruses. And this phylogenetic tree that was developed by gene-sequencing, demonstrated that this particular XMRV that we isolated from the Chronic fatigue patients was similar to, but not identical to, the XMRV that has been demonstrated in patients with prostate cancer..."
For some reason I thought it was the same thing.
And this was also surprising:
"We did look at the genetic variation in RNASE-L that had been reported in the prostate cancer patients. Its a fairly common genetic abnormality in the population at large. And in fact we did not see any correlation with the patients who were positive. "
Finally, the following seems to contradict what he told you after the conference:
"And so you can generate a hypothesis much like the HIV hypothesis is that you get an acute infection, you develop an antibody response, ultimately you have a failure of the immune system and we postulate here that maybe in NK-cell numbers and function resulting in very significant and prolonged disease."
Is my brain completely rotting, or didn't you say Cort that he believed a weakened immune system comes before XMRV infection?
thanks,
d-bex