{"id":203244,"date":"2025-01-07T06:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/genetic-discovery-offers-hope-for-personalized-epilepsy-treatments"},"modified":"2025-01-07T06:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:16:07","slug":"genetic-discovery-offers-hope-for-personalized-epilepsy-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/genetic-discovery-offers-hope-for-personalized-epilepsy-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Genetic discovery offers hope for personalized epilepsy treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-discovery-offers-hope-for-personalized-epilepsy-treatments3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent research led by UTHealth Houston scientists has uncovered two genes associated with variants linked to epilepsy, which showed specific traits that make them promising diagnostic biomarkers.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-54911-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Dennis Lal, Ph.D., director of the Center for Neurogenetics and associate professor of neurology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, the research team analyzed data from 1,386 human brain tissues for somatic variants in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/genes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genes<\/a> of individuals undergoing <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/epilepsy+surgery\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">epilepsy surgery<\/a>. Somatic variants are DNA changes that occur after conception and can only be identified in the brain tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research led by UTHealth Houston scientists has uncovered two genes associated with variants linked to epilepsy, which showed specific traits that make them promising diagnostic biomarkers. The study is published in Nature Communications. Led by Dennis Lal, Ph.D., director of the Center for Neurogenetics and associate professor of neurology at McGovern Medical School at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203244","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\/203244","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=203244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}