{"id":183420,"date":"2024-02-23T01:28:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T07:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-insight-into-gene-uncovers-its-link-to-incurable-birth-defect"},"modified":"2024-02-23T01:28:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T07:28:35","slug":"new-insight-into-gene-uncovers-its-link-to-incurable-birth-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-insight-into-gene-uncovers-its-link-to-incurable-birth-defect","title":{"rendered":"New insight into gene uncovers its link to incurable birth defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-insight-into-gene-uncovers-its-link-to-incurable-birth-defect2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have unraveled how mutations in a gene can lead to an incurable neurodevelopmental disorder that causes abnormal brain development in newborns and infants.<\/p>\n<p>The WEHI study is the first to prove that a protein called Trabid helps control <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/neuronal+development\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neuronal development<\/a>, and that mutations to this protein can lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/microcephaly\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microcephaly <\/a>\u2014a condition where a baby\u2019s brain is smaller than expected.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hoped the milestone findings will provide a deeper understanding into the protein\u2019s impact on <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/healthy+development\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">healthy development<\/a> and lead to treatments that can slow or stop the development of microcephaly and potentially other neurological disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have unraveled how mutations in a gene can lead to an incurable neurodevelopmental disorder that causes abnormal brain development in newborns and infants. The WEHI study is the first to prove that a protein called Trabid helps control neuronal development, and that mutations to this protein can lead to microcephaly \u2014a condition where a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183420","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=183420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}