{"id":16708,"date":"2017-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/researchers-discover-eight-new-epilepsy-genes\/"},"modified":"2017-11-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T05:00:00","slug":"researchers-discover-eight-new-epilepsy-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/researchers-discover-eight-new-epilepsy-genes\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Discover Eight New Epilepsy Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec congratulates Dr. Jacques Michaud from the CHU Sainte-Justine who led the study with other researchers including Dr. Patrick Cossette from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. The study led to the identification of eight new epilepsy genes,\u00a0<span>thanks to the use of whole-genome sequencing, which had never been done before in an epileptic study of this scope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>The results of their study of\u00a0<span>200 children with epileptic encephalopathy &#8211; epilepsy combined with intellectual or overall developmental disability &#8211; and their parents, could lead to the development of a more rational anti-epileptic treatment strategy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;By learning about the pathophysiology of the genes involved, we hope to move towards a more appropriate treatment and decrease the amount of time spent on cumbersome medical assessments,&#8221; said Dr. Michaud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.chusj.org\/en\/Communications\/Nouvelles\/2017\/Des-chercheurs-decouvrent-huit-nouveaux-genes-de-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read the press release from CHU Sainte-Justine, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/ajhg\/fulltext\/S0002-9297(17)30377-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read the publication in The American Journal of Human Genetics, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec congratulates Dr. Jacques Michaud from the CHU Sainte-Justine who led the study with other researchers including Dr. Patrick Cossette from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. The study led to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15979,"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-16708","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\/16708","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=16708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}