{"id":112560,"date":"2020-09-05T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/this-gene-may-be-why-women-with-alzheimers-disease-live-longer"},"modified":"2020-09-05T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T20:22:19","slug":"this-gene-may-be-why-women-with-alzheimers-disease-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/this-gene-may-be-why-women-with-alzheimers-disease-live-longer","title":{"rendered":"This Gene May Be Why Women with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Live Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-gene-may-be-why-women-with-alzheimers-disease-live-longer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women with Alzheimer\u2019s disease tend to live longer than men with the disease \u2014 and a new study suggests that a gene on the X chromosome may help explain why.<\/p>\n<p>Each person typically has one pair of sex chromosomes in each cell of their body. People assigned female at birth typically have two X chromosomes, while people assigned male at birth typically have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say a gene called KDM6A may explain why women with Alzheimer\u2019s disease tend to live longer than men with the same condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women with Alzheimer\u2019s disease tend to live longer than men with the disease \u2014 and a new study suggests that a gene on the X chromosome may help explain why. Each person typically has one pair of sex chromosomes in each cell of their body. People assigned female at birth typically have two X chromosomes, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}