Wow a graph!! I love graphs
You are doing a great job with putting this all together.
thanks for giving us an anonomous rundown of the types of ME/CFS patients which are giving what results.
The average number of rare homozygous mutations on these genes is 6.9 for patients and 0.4 for controls.
I think that needs to be discounted as being important at all as this wasnt a blind study and these genes involved there have been picked up from lots as being the higher ones in us to start with.
That comparison would only be important if you now get a completely different group of ME/CFS patients and compare those with the controls and see if they are still high compared to them (see if you can come up with the same results again, that would be quite telling). If you did this, it may more quickly make it obvious that certain SNPs are probably on the wrong track if the two different groups of ME/CFS people show completely different result.. Would a separate group of say 8 ME/CFS people have the same genes highlighted as you have here?
I'll be excited to see what happens to these results as more people give their DNA data
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One thing I'd like to point out is that I think that its important for the control group esp since genes are being compared, to not be blood related to the ME/CFS group. Are all this control group blood unrelated?
Im a bit sad, I was going to get you three more controls to add to this but due to the 23andME FDA thingy, they wont be now able to get the test.