{"id":166190,"date":"2023-06-22T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/researchers-identify-jumping-genes-that-can-lead-to-rare-syndrome-in-children"},"modified":"2023-06-22T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T09:24:00","slug":"researchers-identify-jumping-genes-that-can-lead-to-rare-syndrome-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/researchers-identify-jumping-genes-that-can-lead-to-rare-syndrome-in-children","title":{"rendered":"Researchers identify jumping genes that can lead to rare syndrome in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-identify-jumping-genes-that-can-lead-to-rare-syndrome-in-children2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new family of DNA elements which control the activation of certain genes known to cause a rare disease known as MSL3 syndrome in children has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>The study led by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London and published in <i>Nature Structural &amp; Molecular Biology<\/i> shines a new light on the mechanism behind this poorly understood disease, hoping that it can lead to better treatments for this and similar diseases in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Mutations in the MSL3 gene are known to cause a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/rare+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rare disease<\/a> in children called MSL3 syndrome\u2014a newly discovered disease with only around 50 registered diagnoses worldwide, although scientists predict that more cases are currently undiagnosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new family of DNA elements which control the activation of certain genes known to cause a rare disease known as MSL3 syndrome in children has been identified. The study led by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London and published in Nature Structural &amp; Molecular Biology shines a new light on the mechanism [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166190","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\/166190","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}