{"id":3847,"date":"2015-02-02T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2015-02-02T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:57:10","slug":"gene-causing-common-scoliosis-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/gene-causing-common-scoliosis-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene causing common scoliosis identified"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Idiopathic<\/a>

Idiopathic scoliosis is a medical condition by lateral curvature of the spin and a rotation of the vertebral bodies. (Photo credit: Kfergos, flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

Researchers have identified the first gene causing idiopathic scoliosis, the most common type of spinal deformity. They identified 11 family members of a French family that were carriers of a rare variant of the gene, called POC5, and then used zebrafish to confirm that this variant really cause spinal deformity.<\/p>\n

This study is the first step in understanding and perhaps preventing idiopathic scoliosis.<\/p>\n

Videos are available here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0February 2<\/strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Florina Moldovan<\/a>, University of Montr\u00e9al,\u00a0Quebec<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers have identified the first gene causing idiopathic scoliosis, the most common type of spinal deformity. They identified 11 family members of a French family that were carriers of a rare variant of the gene, called POC5, and then used zebrafish to confirm that this variant really cause spinal deformity. This study is the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1274,909,51,53,849],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-dna","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/5509928741_7ee89af75e_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-103","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3849,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}