{"id":16531,"date":"2013-01-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/personalized-medicine-a-breakthrough-for-children-diagnosed-with-adrenal-insufficiency\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:00:00","slug":"personalized-medicine-a-breakthrough-for-children-diagnosed-with-adrenal-insufficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/personalized-medicine-a-breakthrough-for-children-diagnosed-with-adrenal-insufficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalized Medicine: A breakthrough for children diagnosed with adrenal insufficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">Thanks to new<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">genomics techniques<\/span><span>,<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">a team of researchers<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">at the <\/span>Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center and the University of Montr\u00e9al <span class=\"hps\">have successfully<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">identified\u00a0<\/span>mutations in POMC, the gene <span class=\"hps\">responsible for a rare <span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"en\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"hps\" lang=\"en\">type of adrenal insufficiency<\/span><\/span><\/span>. They <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"hps\" lang=\"en\">have potentially eliminated a lifetime drug prescription that two children with the disease had been receiving for 14 years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The research conducted by Dr. Mark Samuels&#8217; team, lead author of a paper published on the subject in January 2013 in the <em>Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism<\/em>, is part of the Canadian Pediatric Genetic Disorders Sequencing Consortium (FORGE Canada), which is funded in part by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Genome Canada and G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca\/udem-news\/news\/20130131-personalized-medicine-eliminates-need-for-drug-in-two-children.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to new genomics techniques, a team of researchers at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center and the University of Montr\u00e9al have successfully identified\u00a0mutations in POMC, the gene responsible for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}