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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">ppan</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Personalized Psychiatry and Neurology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Personalized Psychiatry and Neurology</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2712-9179</issn><publisher><publisher-name>V. M. Bekhterev National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Neurology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Bekhterev NMRC PN)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.52667/2712-9179-2026-6-1-31-36</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">ppan-161</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>ARTICLE</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>DHCR7 Mutation Carriers and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: No Associations According to DecodeME Data</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Sverdrup</surname><given-names>Antoniy Elias</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Kazan, 420008; ASverdrup@kpfu.ru</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Akhmetzyanova</surname><given-names>Elvira R.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Kazan, 420008; ASverdrup@kpfu.ru</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Molchun</surname><given-names>Anna M.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Minsk, 220072</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Liaudanski</surname><given-names>Aleh D.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Minsk, 220072</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Rizvanov</surname><given-names>Albert A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Kazan, 420008; ASverdrup@kpfu.ru</p><p>Kazan, 420111</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">albert.rizvanov@kpfu.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus</institution><country>Belarus</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-3"><institution>Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University;&#13;
Division of Medical and Biological Sciences, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>16</day><month>03</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>6</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>31</fpage><lpage>36</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Sverdrup A.E., Akhmetzyanova E.R., Molchun A.M., Liaudanski A.D., Rizvanov A.A., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Sverdrup A.E., Akhmetzyanova E.R., Molchun A.M., Liaudanski A.D., Rizvanov A.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Sverdrup A.E., Akhmetzyanova E.R., Molchun A.M., Liaudanski A.D., Rizvanov A.A.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.jppn.ru/jour/article/view/161">https://www.jppn.ru/jour/article/view/161</self-uri><abstract><p>Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating multi-system disorder whose pathogenesis is associated with metabolic and immune dysfunction. Dysfunction of cholesterol metabolism and vitamin D deficiency are considered potential path-ogenic factors. The DHCR7 gene, encoding 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase, catalyzes the final step in cholesterol biosynthesis and simultaneously determines the availability of provitamin D. Pathogenic DHCR7 mutations, leading to the development of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) in the homozygous state, are characterized by a high prevalence in the population as heterozygous carriers (~1%). Therefore, it was hypothesized that heterozygous carriage of DHCR7 mutations may be associated with an increased predisposition to the development of ME/CFS. Materials and Methods: We used open-source genetic data from the DecodeME project (n = 15,579 ME/CFS patients, 259,909 controls). We analyzed the frequency of 11 pathogenic DHCR7 mutations: IVS8-1G&gt;C, W151X, T93M, V326L, R404C, R352W, E448K, R352Q, G410S, R242C, and F302L. The association with the ME/CFS phenotype was assessed using a χ² test in six datasets (the overall sample (gwas_1), subsamples of men (gwas_1_male), women (gwas_1_female), spontaneous CFS development (gwas_1_non-infectious_onset), CFS development with infectious onset (gwas_1_infectious_onset), and a subsample with a 1:10 patient: control ratio (gwas_2)). Results. Only the IVS8-1G&gt;C mutation was detected in the DecodeME data (carrier frequency ~1%). A statistically significant association (p-value ≈ 0.013) was observed in only one subsample (gwas_2) but was not replicated in the others. The remaining mutations were not detected in the DecodeME data. Conclusions. The obtained results do not support the hypothesis of a link be-tween carriage of SLOS-inducing DHCR7 mutations and ME/CFS. This negative result is im-portant for the correct refinement of metabolic hypotheses regarding pathogenesis and the pri-oritization of research areas. Further study of sterol metabolism and metabolomic biomarkers in patient subgroups is recommended.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome</kwd><kwd>multiple sclerosis</kwd><kwd>myalgic encephalomyelitis</kwd><kwd>chronic fatigue syndrome</kwd><kwd>DHCR7 gene</kwd><kwd>association search</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Kozera N., Śmigiel R., Rozensztrauch A. Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) – Case description and the impact of thera-peutic interventions on psychomotor development. J. Clin. Med. 2025; 14: 8569. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14238569</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Kozera N., Śmigiel R., Rozensztrauch A. Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) – Case description and the impact of thera-peutic interventions on psychomotor development. J. Clin. 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