{"id":236180,"date":"2026-04-29T22:11:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/mapping-gene-variants-reveals-new-neurodevelopmental-condition"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:11:39","slug":"mapping-gene-variants-reveals-new-neurodevelopmental-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/mapping-gene-variants-reveals-new-neurodevelopmental-condition","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Gene Variants Reveals New Neurodevelopmental Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-gene-variants-reveals-new-neurodevelopmental-condition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By mapping all the possible variations in a single gene, researchers have uncovered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10334-9\" target=\"_blank\">previously hidden neurodevelopmental condition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.renusyndrome.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ReNU syndrome<\/a> is a rare, inherited neurodevelopmental disorder identified in 2024 that affects brain function, development, and motor skills and is predicted to affect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07773-7\" target=\"_blank\">tens of thousands of individuals worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By mapping all the possible variations in a single gene, researchers have uncovered a previously hidden neurodevelopmental condition. ReNU syndrome is a rare, inherited neurodevelopmental disorder identified in 2024 that affects brain function, development, and motor skills and is predicted to affect tens of thousands of individuals worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236180","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=236180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}