{"id":145059,"date":"2022-08-28T18:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T23:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/oldest-case-of-a-rare-genetic-condition-discovered"},"modified":"2022-08-28T18:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T23:25:16","slug":"oldest-case-of-a-rare-genetic-condition-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/oldest-case-of-a-rare-genetic-condition-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Oldest case of a rare genetic condition discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oldest-case-of-a-rare-genetic-condition-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of international researchers has uncovered evidence of a super rare genetic condition that gives men an extra X chromosome, reporting the oldest clinical case of Klinefelter syndrome to date.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence comes from a 1,000-year-old skeleton from Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Klinefelter syndrome is a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/rare+genetic+condition\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rare genetic condition<\/a> where individuals are born with an extra copy of the X chromosome, occurring in approximately one in 1,000 genetic-male births.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of international researchers has uncovered evidence of a super rare genetic condition that gives men an extra X chromosome, reporting the oldest clinical case of Klinefelter syndrome to date. The evidence comes from a 1,000-year-old skeleton from Portugal. Klinefelter syndrome is a rare genetic condition where individuals are born with an extra copy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145059","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}