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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether any Government-funded bodies have used clinically validated assays in their published studies into gamma retrovirus infections in myalgic encephalopathy, chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer patients in the latest period for which figures are available.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether any Government-funded bodies have used clinically validated assays in their published studies into gamma retrovirus infections in myalgic encephalopathy, chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer patients in the latest period for which figures are available.
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The Medical Research Council (MRC) is funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and is one of the main agencies through which the Government supports medical research.
Researchers at the MRC's National Institute for Medical Research are investigating infection and replication of retroviruses, such as xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus (XMRV). Two papers resulting from work on XMRV in patients with Myalgic Encephalopathy/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and also in prostate cancer patients have been published. Neither study identified a link between XMRV and disease. Details of the sensitive serological and PCR assays used in the studies are described in the papers. There are no clinically validated assays to study gammaretroviruses in humans.