{"id":139256,"date":"2022-05-12T19:02:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/could-an-atlas-of-the-brains-genome-solve-neuropsychiatric-disorders"},"modified":"2022-05-12T19:02:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:02:52","slug":"could-an-atlas-of-the-brains-genome-solve-neuropsychiatric-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/could-an-atlas-of-the-brains-genome-solve-neuropsychiatric-disorders","title":{"rendered":"Could an Atlas of the Brain\u2019s Genome Solve Neuropsychiatric Disorders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-an-atlas-of-the-brains-genome-solve-neuropsychiatric-disorders2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Thomas Lehner was tired of his research repeatedly hitting a wall.<\/p>\n<p>A scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health, Lehner studies the genetic underpinnings of neuropsychiatric disorders. Teasing out associated genes turned out to be relatively simple. Schizophrenia, for example, is linked to small variations in some 360 genes.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is identifying the ones that <em>really <\/em>matter\u2014culprit gene variants that can be turned into predictive tests, similar to the BRCA gene for breast cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Thomas Lehner was tired of his research repeatedly hitting a wall. A scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health, Lehner studies the genetic underpinnings of neuropsychiatric disorders. Teasing out associated genes turned out to be relatively simple. Schizophrenia, for example, is linked to small variations in some 360 genes. The problem is identifying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139256","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}