{"id":121784,"date":"2021-04-21T06:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/strange-new-genetic-disease-discovered-that-causes-childrens-brains-to-develop-abnormally"},"modified":"2021-04-21T06:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:23:40","slug":"strange-new-genetic-disease-discovered-that-causes-childrens-brains-to-develop-abnormally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/strange-new-genetic-disease-discovered-that-causes-childrens-brains-to-develop-abnormally","title":{"rendered":"Strange New Genetic Disease Discovered That Causes Children\u2019s Brains to Develop Abnormally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strange-new-genetic-disease-discovered-that-causes-childrens-brains-to-develop-abnormally3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One in 17 people will suffer from a rare disease at some time in their lives. Most of these rare diseases have a genetic cause and often affect children, but proving which gene change causes a disease is a huge challenge.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new genetic disease, which causes some children\u2019s brains to develop abnormally, resulting in delayed intellectual development and often early onset cataracts.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of patients with the condition, which is so new it doesn\u2019t have a name yet, were also microcephalic, a birth defect where a baby\u2019s head is smaller than expected when compared to babies of the same sex and age.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the universities of Portsmouth and Southampton found that changes in a gene called coat protein complex 1 (COPB1) caused this rare genetic disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in 17 people will suffer from a rare disease at some time in their lives. Most of these rare diseases have a genetic cause and often affect children, but proving which gene change causes a disease is a huge challenge. Scientists have discovered a new genetic disease, which causes some children\u2019s brains to develop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121784","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}