Publications
2024
Xiong R, Fleming E, Caldwell R, Vernon SD, Kozhaya L, Gunter C, Bateman L, Unutmaz D, Oh J. (2024). BioMapAI: artificial intelligence multi-omics modeling of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jun 28:2024.06.24.600378. doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.24.600378.
Vu, L. T., Ahmed, F., Zhu, H., Iu, D. S. H., Fogarty, E. A., Kwak, Y., Chen, W., Franconi, C. J., Munn, P. R., Tate, A. E., Levine, S. M., Stevens, J., Mao, X., Shungu, D. C., Moore, G. E., Keller, B. A., Hanson, M. R., Grenier, J. K., & Grimson, A. (2024). Single-cell transcriptomics of the immune system in ME/CFS at baseline and following symptom provocation. Cell Reports Medicine, 5(1), 101373. doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101373
Giloteaux, L., Glass, K. A., Germain, A., Franconi, C. J., Zhang, S., & Hanson, M. R. (2024). Dysregulation of extracellular vesicle protein cargo in female myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome cases and sedentary controls in response to maximal exercise. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 13(1), e12403. doi.org/10.1002/jev2.12403
2023
Brydges, C., Che, X., Lipkin, W. I., & Fiehn, O. (2023). Bayesian statistics improves biological interpretability of metabolomics data from human cohorts. Metabolites, 13(9), 984. doi.org/10.3390/metabo13090984
Hanson MR.2023. The viral origin of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. PLoS Pathogens19(8):e1011523. doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011523
Maya J. (2023). Surveying the metabolic and dysfunctional profiles of t cells and nk cells in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(15), 11937. doi.org/10.3390/ijms241511937
Komaroff, A. L., & Lipkin, W. I. (2023). ME/CFS and Long COVID share similar symptoms and biological abnormalities: road map to the literature. Frontiers in Medicine, 10, 1187163. doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1187163
Giloteaux, L., Li, J., Hornig, M., Lipkin, W. I., Ruppert, D., & Hanson, M. R. (2023). Proteomics and cytokine analyses distinguish myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome cases from controls. Journal of Translational Medicine, 21(1), 322. doi.org/10.1186/s12967-023-04179-3
Vernon, S. D., Hartle, M., Sullivan, K., Bell, J., Abbaszadeh, S., Unutmaz, D., & Bateman, L. (2023). Post-exertional malaise among people with long COVID compared to myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Work, 74(4), 1179-1186. doi.org/10.3233/WOR-220581
Moore, G. E., Keller, B. A., Stevens, J., Mao, X., Stevens, S. R., Chia, J. K., Levine, S. M., Franconi, C. J., & Hanson, M. R. (2023). Recovery from exercise in persons with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Medicina, 59(3), 571. doi.org/10.3390/medicina59030571
Glass, K. A., Germain, A., Huang, Y. V., & Hanson, M. R. (2023). Urine metabolomics exposes anomalous recovery after maximal exertion in female me/cfs patients. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(4), 3685. doi.org/10.3390/ijms24043685
Xiong, R., Gunter, C., Fleming, E., Vernon, S. D., Bateman, L., Unutmaz, D., & Oh, J. (2023). Multi-'omics of gut microbiome-host interactions in short- and long-term myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients. Cell Host & Microbe, 31(2), 273-287.e5. doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2023.01.001
Guo, C., Che, X., Briese, T., Ranjan, A., Allicock, O., Yates, R. A., Cheng, A., March, D., Hornig, M., Komaroff, A. L., Levine, S., Bateman, L., Vernon, S. D., Klimas, N. G., Montoya, J. G., Peterson, D. L., Lipkin, W. I., & Williams, B. L. (2023). Deficient butyrate-producing capacity in the gut microbiome is associated with bacterial network disturbances and fatigue symptoms in ME/CFS. Cell Host & Microbe, 31(2), 288-304.e8. doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2023.01.004
Nepotchatykh, E., Caraus, I., Elremaly, W., Leveau, C., Elbakry, M., Godbout, C., Rostami-Afshari, B., Petre, D., Khatami, N., Franco, A., & Moreau, A. (2023). Circulating microRNA expression signatures accurately discriminate myalgic encephalomyelitis from fibromyalgia and comorbid conditions. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1896. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28955-9
Maya, J., Leddy, S. M., Gottschalk, C. G., Peterson, D. L., & Hanson, M. R. (2023). Altered Fatty Acid Oxidation in Lymphocyte Populations of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(3), 2010. doi.org/10.3390/ijms24032010
Oliveira, C. R., Jason, L. A., Unutmaz, D., Bateman, L., & Vernon, S. D. (2023). Improvement of Long COVID symptoms over one year. Frontiers in Medicine, 9, 1065620. doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.1065620
2022
Ahmed F, Vu LT, Zhu H, Iu DSH, Fogarty EA, Kwak Y, Chen W, Franconi, CJ, Munn PR, Levine SM, Stevens J, Mao X, Shung DC, Moore GE, Keller BA, Hanson MR, Grenier JK, & Grimson A. 2022. Single-cell transcriptomics of the immune system in ME/CFS at baseline and following symptom provocation. bioRxiv 2022.10.13.512091. doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.13.512091
Goldberg, N. C., Poirier, S., Kanas, A., McCorkell, L., McGinn, C. A., Re'em, Y., Kuehnel, K., Muirhead, N., Ruschioni, T., Taylor-Brown, S., & Jason, L. A. (2022). A new clinical challenge: Supporting patients coping with the long-term effects of COVID-19. Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior, 1-19. doi.org/10.1080/21641846.2022.2128576
Ramiller, A., Mudie, K., Seibert, E., & Whittaker, S. (2022). The Facilitation of Clinical and Therapeutic Discoveries in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Diseases: Protocol for the You + ME Registry Research Platform. JMIR research protocols, 11(8), e36798. doi.org/10.2196/36798
Che X., Brydges C.R., Yu Y., Price A., Joshi S., Roy A., Lee B., Barupal D.K., Cheng A., Palmer D.M., Levine S., Peterson D.L., Vernon S.D., Bateman L., Hornig M., Montoya J.G., Komaroff A.L., Fiehn O., Lipkin W.I. Metabolomic Evidence for Peroxisomal Dysfunction in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2022; 23(14):7906. doi.org/10.3390/ijms23147906
Vernon, S. D., Funk, S., Bateman, L., Stoddard, G. J., Hammer, S., Sullivan, K., Bell, J., Abbaszadeh, S., Lipkin, W. I., & Komaroff, A. L. (2022). Orthostatic Challenge Causes Distinctive Symptomatic, Hemodynamic and Cognitive Responses in Long COVID and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Frontiers in Medicine. 9;917019. doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.917019
O'Neal A. J., Glass K. A., Emig C. J., Vitug A. A., Henry S. J., Shungu D. C., Mao X., Levine S. M., Hanson M. R. (2022). Survey of anti-pathogen antibody levels in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, Proteomes, 10 (2), 21. doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020021
Germain, A., Giloteaux, L., Moore, G. E., Levine, S. M., Chia, J. K., Keller, B. A., Stevens, J., Franconi, C. J., Mao, X., Shungu, D. C., Grimson, A., and Hanson, M. R. (2022). Plasma metabolomics reveals disrupted response and recovery following maximal exercise in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. JCI Insight, 7(9), e157621. doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.157621
2021
Mathur, R., Carnes, M. U., Harding, A., Moore, A., Thomas, I., Giarrocco, A., Long, M., Underwood, M., Townsend, C., Ruiz-Esparza, R., Barnette, Q., Brown, L. M., Schu, M. (2021). mapMECFS: A portal to enhance data discovery across biological disciplines and collaborative sites. Journal of Translational Medicine, 19(1), 461. doi:10.1186/s12967-021-03127-3
Paul, B. D., Lemle, M. D., Komaroff, A. L., and Snyder, S. H. (2021). Redox imbalance links COVID-19 and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 118(34), 1. doi:10.1073/pnas.2024358118
Hanson, M. R. (2021, August 12). Are enteroviruses behind mysterious outbreaks of chronic fatigue syndrome? Frontiers Science News.
O'Neal, A. J., and Hanson, M. R. (2021). The enterovirus theory of disease etiology in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A critical review. Frontiers in Medicine, 8, 688486. doi:10.3389/fmed.2021.688486
E Komaroff, A. L., and Lipkin, W. I. (2021). Insights from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome may help unravel the pathogenesis of postacute COVID-19 syndrome. Trends in Molecular Medicine, 27(9), 895-906. doi:10.1016/j.molmed.2021.06.002
E Zhang, D. X., Vu, L. T., Ismail, N. N., Le, M., and Grimson, A. (2021). Landscape of extracellular vesicles in the tumour microenvironment: Interactions with stromal cells and with non-cell components, and impacts on metabolic reprogramming, horizontal transfer of neoplastic traits, and the emergence of therapeutic resistance. Seminars in Cancer Biology, 74, 24-44. doi.org/10.1016/j.semcancer.2021.01.007
Germain, A., Levine, S. M., and Hanson, M. R. (2021). In-depth analysis of the plasma proteome in ME/CFS exposes disrupted ephrin-eph and immune system signaling. Proteomes, 9(1), 6. doi:10.3390/proteomes9010006
2020
Nepotchatykh, E., Elremaly, W., Caraus, I., Godbout, C., Leveau, C., Chalder, L., Beaudin, C., Kanamaru, E., Kosovskaia, R., Lauzon, S., Maillet, Y., Franco, A., Lascau-Coman, V., Bouhanik, S., Gaitan, Y. P., Li, D., and Moreau, A. (2020). Profile of circulating microRNAs in myalgic encephalomyelitis and their relation to symptom severity, and disease pathophysiology. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 19620. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-76438-y
Giloteaux, L., O'Neal, A., Castro-Marrero, J., Levine, S. M., and Hanson, M. R. (2020). Cytokine profiling of extracellular vesicles isolated from plasma in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A pilot study. Journal of Translational Medicine, 18(1), 387. doi:10.1186/s12967-020-02560-0
Lee, J., Vernon, S. D., Jeys, P., Ali, W., Campos, A., Unutmaz, D., Yellman, B., Bateman, L. (2020). Hemodynamics during the 10-minute NASA lean test: Evidence of circulatory decompensation in a subset of ME/CFS patients. Journal of Translational Medicine, 18(1), 314. doi:10.1186/s12967-020-02481-y
Milivojevic, M., Che, X., Bateman, L., Cheng, A., Garcia, B. A., Hornig, M., Huber, M., Klimas, N. G., Lee, B., Lee, H., Levine, S., Montoya, J. G., Peterson, D. L., Komaroff, A. L., and Lipkin, W. I. (2020). Plasma proteomic profiling suggests an association between antigen driven clonal B cell expansion and ME/CFS. PloS One, 15(7), e0236148. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0236148
Hanson, M. R., and Germain, A. (2020). Letter to the Editor of Metabolites. Metabolites, 10(5), 216. doi.org/10.3390/metabo10050216
Mandarano, A. H., Maya, J., Giloteaux, L., Peterson, D. L., Maynard, M., Gottschalk, C. G., and Hanson, M. R. (2020). Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients exhibit altered T cell metabolism and cytokine associations. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 130(3), 1491-1505. doi:10.1172/JCI132185
Germain, A., Barupal, D. K., Levine, S. M., and Hanson, M. R. (2020). Comprehensive circulatory metabolomics in ME/CFS reveals disrupted metabolism of acyl lipids and steroids. Metabolites, 10(1), 34. doi:10.3390/metabo10010034
2019
Oh, J., and Unutmaz, D. (2019). Immune cells for microbiota surveillance. Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 366(6464), 419-420. doi:10.1126/science.aaz4014
Friedman, K. J., Bateman, L., Bested, A., and Nahle, Z. (2019). Editorial: Advances in ME/CFS research and clinical care. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 7, 370. doi:10.3389/fped.2019.00370
Komaroff, A. L. (2019). Advances in understanding the pathophysiology of chronic fatigue syndrome. JAMA : The Journal of the American Medical Association, 322(6), 499-500. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.8312
2019
Karhan, E., Gunter, C.L., Ravanmehr, V., Horne, M., Kozhaya, L., Renzullo, S., Placek, L., George, L., Robinson, P. N., Vernon, S. D., Bateman, L., Unutmaz, D. (2019). Perturbation of effector and regulatory T cell subsets in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). bioRxiv 2019.12.23.887505. doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.23.887505
2018
Germain, A., Ruppert, D., Levine, S. M., and Hanson, M. R. (2018). Prospective biomarkers from plasma metabolomics of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome implicate redox imbalance in disease symptomatology. Metabolites, 8(4), 90. doi:10.3390/metabo8040090
Stevens, S., Snell, C., Stevens, J., Keller, B., and VanNess, J. M. (2018). Cardiopulmonary exercise test methodology for assessing exertion intolerance in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 6, 242. doi:10.3389/fped.2018.00242
Nagy-Szakal, D., Barupal, D. K., Lee, B., Che, X., Williams, B. L., Kahn, E., Ukaigwe, J. E., Bateman, L., Klimas, N. G., Komaroff, A. L., Levine, S., Montoya, J. G., Peterson, D. L., Levin, B., Hornig, M., Fiehn, O., Lipkin, W. I. (2018). Insights into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome phenotypes through comprehensive metabolomics. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 10056. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-28477-9
Mandarano, A. H., Maya, J., Giloteaux, L., Peterson, D. L., Maynard, M., Gottschalk, C. G., and Hanson, M. R. (2020). Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients exhibit altered T cell metabolism and cytokine associations. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 130(3), 1491-1505. doi:10.1172/JCI132185
2017
Nagy-Szakal, D., Williams, B. L., Mishra, N., Che, X., Lee, B., Bateman, L., Klimas, N. G., Komaroff, A. L., Levine, S., Montoya, J. G., Peterson, D. L., Ramanan, D., Jain, K., Eddy, M. L., Hornig, M., Lipkin, W. I. (2017). Fecal metagenomic profiles in subgroups of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Microbiome, 5(1), 44. doi:10.1186/s40168-017-0261-y
Hornig, M., Gottschalk, C. G., Eddy, M. L., Che, X., Ukaigwe, J. E., Peterson, D. L., and Lipkin, W. I. (2017). Immune network analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome with atypical and classical presentations. Translational Psychiatry, 7(4), e1080. doi:10.1038/tp.2017.44
Natelson, B. H., Mao, X., Stegner, A. J., Lange, G., Vu, D., Blate, M., Kang, G., Soto, E., Kapusuz, T., Shungu, D. C. (2017). Multimodal and simultaneous assessments of brain and spinal fluid abnormalities in chronic fatigue syndrome and the effects of psychiatric comorbidity. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 375, 411-416. doi:10.1016/j.jns.2017.02.046
Natelson, B. H., Vu, D., Coplan, J. D., Mao, X., Blate, M., Kang, G., Soto, E., Kapusuz, T., Shungu, D. C. (2017). Elevations of ventricular lactate levels occur in both chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. Fatigue (Abingdon, Eng.), 5(1), 15-20. doi:10.1080/21641846.2017.1280114
Germain, A., Ruppert, D., Levine, S. M., and Hanson, M. R. (2017). Metabolic profiling of a myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome discovery cohort reveals disturbances in fatty acid and lipid metabolism. Molecular BioSystems, 13(2), 371-379. doi.org/10.1039/c6mb00600k
2016
Hanson, M. R., Gu, Z., Keinan, A., Ye, K., Germain, A., and Billing-Ross, P. (2016). Association of mitochondrial DNA variants with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) symptoms. Journal of Translational Medicine, 14(1), 342. doi:10.1186/s12967-016-1104-5
Giloteaux, L., Hanson, M. R., and Keller, B. A. (2016). A pair of identical twins discordant for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome differ in physiological parameters and gut microbiome composition. The American Journal of Case Reports, 17, 720-729. doi:10.12659/AJCR.900314
Giloteaux, L., Goodrich, J. K., Walters, W. A., Levine, S. M., Ley, R. E., and Hanson, M. R. (2016). Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Microbiome, 4(1), 30. doi.org/10.1186/s40168-016-0171-4
E Hornig, M., Gottschalk, G., Peterson, D. L., Knox, K. K., Schultz, A. F., Eddy, M. L., Che, X., Lipkin, W. I. (2016). Cytokine network analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Molecular Psychiatry, 21(2), 261-269. doi:10.1038/mp.2015.29
Billing-Ross, P., Germain, A., Ye, K., Keinan, A., Gu, Z., and Hanson, M. R. (2016). Mitochondrial DNA variants correlate with symptoms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Translational Medicine, 14(1), 19. doi:10.1186/s12967-016-0771-6
2015
Magnus, P., Gunnes, N., Tveito, K., Bakken, I. J., Ghaderi, S., Stoltenberg, C., Hornig, M., Lipkin, W. I., Trogstad, L., and Håberg, S. E. (2015). Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is associated with pandemic influenza infection, but not with an adjuvanted pandemic influenza vaccine. Vaccine, 33(46), 6173-6177. doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.10.018
Natelson, B. H., Vu, D., Mao, X., Weiduschat, N., Togo, F., Lange, G., Blate, M., Kang, G., Coplan, J. D., and Shungu, D. C. (2015). Effect of Milnacipran Treatment on Ventricular Lactate in Fibromyalgia: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. The Journal of Pain, 16(11), 1211-1219. doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2015.08.004
Hornig, M., Montoya, J. G., Klimas, N. G., Levine, S., Felsenstein, D., Bateman, L., Peterson, D. L., Gottschalk, C. G., Schultz, A. F., Che, X., Eddy, M. L., Komaroff, A. L., and Lipkin, W. I. (2015). Distinct plasma immune signatures in ME/CFS are present early in the course of illness. Science Advances, 1(1), e1400121. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1400121
What is ME/CFS?
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), also referred to as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), is a multi-system disease that causes dysfunction of the neurological, immune, endocrine, and energy metabolism systems.