{"id":639895,"date":"2019-12-05T23:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T03:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639895"},"modified":"2019-12-05T23:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T03:42:21","slug":"junk-dna-affects-inherited-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639895","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Junk DNA&#039; affects inherited cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person&#8217;s risk of developing cancer is affected by genetic variations in regions of DNA that don&#8217;t code for proteins, previously dismissed as &#8216;junk DNA&#8217;, according to new research. This new study shows that inherited cancer risk is not only affected by mutations in key cancer genes &#8211; known as oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes &#8211; but that variations in the DNA that controls the expression of these genes can also drive the disease.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/12\/191205224221.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Junk DNA&#8217; affects inherited cancer risk<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person&#8217;s risk of developing cancer is affected by genetic variations in regions of DNA that don&#8217;t code for proteins, previously dismissed as &#8216;junk DNA&#8217;, according to new research. This&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}