{"id":16557,"date":"2013-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/understanding-the-effects-of-genes-on-human-traits\/"},"modified":"2013-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T04:00:00","slug":"understanding-the-effects-of-genes-on-human-traits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/understanding-the-effects-of-genes-on-human-traits\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the effects of genes on human traits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal Scientists develop a novel approach for scanning the entire genome. In a study published today in <em>Nature Communications, <\/em>Dr. Constantin Polychronakos from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), and collaborators from McGill University and The University of Texas, propose a novel approach for scanning the entire genome that will help us understand the effect of genes on human traits.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by the McGill University and Genome Qu\u00e9bec Innovation Centre, the research team applied this method to a diabetes gene and discovered that at least one of the 50 genetic loci that confer risk to type-1 diabetes shows an effect on the human body by altering RNA translation to protein.\u00a0<strong> <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This paper is one of six that were chosen, from approximately 4000, for presentation at the plenary session of the 2012 conference of the American Society of Human Genetics.<\/p>\n<p>This work was funded by Genome Canada, G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec (GRiD project) and the DP3 program of the USA National Institutes of Health (NIDDK).<\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/data\/nouvelle\/131_en.pdf' download>T\u00e9l\u00e9charger le document<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal Scientists develop a novel approach for scanning the entire genome. In a study published today in Nature Communications, Dr. Constantin Polychronakos from the Research Institute of the McGill University&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15423,"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-16557","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\/16557","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=16557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}