{"id":226409,"date":"2025-12-03T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/genetic-testing-trifecta-predicts-risk-of-sudden-cardiac-death-and-arrhythmia"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:13:09","slug":"genetic-testing-trifecta-predicts-risk-of-sudden-cardiac-death-and-arrhythmia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/genetic-testing-trifecta-predicts-risk-of-sudden-cardiac-death-and-arrhythmia","title":{"rendered":"Genetic testing trifecta predicts risk of sudden cardiac death and arrhythmia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-testing-trifecta-predicts-risk-of-sudden-cardiac-death-and-arrhythmia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study involving 1,119 participants will be published in Cell Reports Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, genetic testing is divided into three distinct approaches:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a new study, scientists have developed a more precise genetic risk score to determine whether a person is likely to develop arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat that can lead to serious conditions such as atrial fibrillation (AFib) or sudden cardiac death.<\/p>\n<p>Their approach not only improves the accuracy of heart disease risk prediction but also offers a comprehensive framework for genetic testing that, according to the scientists, could be applied to anything, including other complex, genetically influenced diseases like cancer, Parkinson\u2019s Disease and autism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very cool approach in which we are combining rare gene variants with common gene variants and then adding in non-coding genome information. To our knowledge, no one has used this comprehensive approach before, so it\u2019s really a roadmap of how to do that,\u201d said co-corresponding author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study involving 1,119 participants will be published in Cell Reports Medicine. Currently, genetic testing is divided into three distinct approaches: In a new study, scientists have developed a more precise genetic risk score to determine whether a person is likely to develop arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat that can lead to serious conditions such as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226409","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\/226409","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=226409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}