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    Illness progression in chronic fatigue syndrome: a shifting immune baseline.

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    2016-03-10
    Author
    Russell, L
    Broderick, G
    Taylor, R
    Fernandes, H
    Harvey, J
    Barnes, Z
    Smylie, A
    Collado, F
    Balbin, EG
    Katz, BZ
    Klimas, NG
    Fletcher, MA
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    BioMed Central
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    Abstract
    BACKGROUND: Validation of biomarkers for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) across data sets has proven disappointing. As immune signature may be affected by many factors, our objective was to explore the shift in discriminatory cytokines across ME/CFS subjects separated by duration of illness. METHODS: Cytokine expression collected at rest across multiple studies for female ME/CFS subjects (i) 18 years or younger, ill for 2 years or less (n = 18), (ii) 18-50 years of age, ill for 7 years (n = 22), and (iii) age 50 years or older (n = 28), ill for 11 years on average. Control subjects were matched for age and body mass index (BMI). Data describing the levels of 16 cytokines using a chemiluminescent assay was used to support the identification of separate linear classification models for each subgroup. In order to isolate the effects of duration of illness alone, cytokines that changed significantly with age in the healthy control subjects were excluded a priori. RESULTS: Optimal selection of cytokines in each group resulted in subsets of IL-1α, 6, 8, 15 and TNFα. Common to any 2 of 3 groups were IL-1α, 6 and 8. Setting these 3 markers as a triple screen and adjusting their contribution according to illness duration sub-groups produced ME/CFS classification accuracies of 75-88 %. The contribution of IL-1α, higher in recently ill adolescent ME/CFS subjects was progressively less important with duration. While high levels of IL-8 screened positive for ME/CFS in the recently afflicted, the opposite was true for subjects ill for more than 2 years. Similarly, while low levels of IL-6 suggested early ME/CFS, the reverse was true in subjects over 18 years of age ill for more than 2 years. CONCLUSIONS: These preliminary results suggest that IL-1α, 6 and 8 adjusted for illness duration may serve as robust biomarkers, independent of age, in screening for ME/CFS.
    Subject
    Chronic fatigue
    Classification model
    Cytokines
    Immune signaling
    Menopause and immunity
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    Article
    Date available in INDIGO
    2016-05-06T16:08:48Z
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10027/20519
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