{"id":217944,"date":"2025-07-15T14:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-gene-tool-leads-to-better-treatments-for-complex-diseases"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:09:17","slug":"new-gene-tool-leads-to-better-treatments-for-complex-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-gene-tool-leads-to-better-treatments-for-complex-diseases","title":{"rendered":"New gene tool leads to better treatments for complex diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-gene-tool-leads-to-better-treatments-for-complex-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Genetic changes can signal evidence of disease, but pinpointing which genes and what\u2019s changed can be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>But in a study of traits that offer clues to a person\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cardiovascular+health\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cardiovascular health <\/a>\u2014such as lipid and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/glucose+levels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">glucose levels<\/a> and inflammation\u2014a team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University devised a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/computational+method\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computational method<\/a> and tool to improve how genes and genetic changes that cause diseases are identified.<\/p>\n<p>Their new approach could allow doctors to detect and treat so-called cardiometabolic diseases earlier in their development. Their findings were recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-61423-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Communications.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic changes can signal evidence of disease, but pinpointing which genes and what\u2019s changed can be difficult. But in a study of traits that offer clues to a person\u2019s cardiovascular health \u2014such as lipid and glucose levels and inflammation\u2014a team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University devised a computational method and tool to improve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217944","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}