{"id":8143,"date":"2016-04-13T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T12:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=8143"},"modified":"2016-04-14T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T09:58:43","slug":"no-there-are-no-super-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2016\/04\/no-there-are-no-super-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"No, there are no super humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tagesanzeiger.ch\/wissen\/medizin-und-psychologie\/genetische-superhelden\/story\/26164752\">repeated\u00a0by many newspapers<\/a> &#8211; claims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nbt\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nbt.3514.html\">genes that rescue<\/a> even in severe Mendelian disorder:\u00a0cystic fibrosis, Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, familial dysautonomia, epidermolysis bullosa simplex, Pfeiffer syndrome, autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome, acampomelic campomelic dysplasia and atelosteogenesis.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A comprehensive screen of 874 genes in 589,306 genomes led to the identification of 13 adults harboring mutations for 8 severe Mendelian conditions, with no reported clinical manifestation of the indicated disease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But we know about the reliability of 23andme results<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8TjKIIwLVo\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2013\/11\/finally-23-and-the-fda-warning\/\">Finally! 23 and the FDA warning<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Finally! 23 and the FDA warning&#8221; &#8212; Science Surf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2013\/11\/finally-23-and-the-fda-warning\/embed\/#?secret=jwZFn5rV8s#?secret=8TjKIIwLVo\" data-secret=\"8TjKIIwLVo\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>who even<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/wissenschaft\/mensch\/23andme-gentest-firma-vertauscht-dna-ergebnisse-ihrer-kunden-a-699436.html\"> mixed up samples in the past.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Searching for\u00a0genes that makes your resilient to\u00a0disease is interesting of course but not very<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22511884\">\u00a0new<\/a>\u00a0with more examples of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3040597\/\">cystic fibrosis<\/a>\u00a0survivors available.\u00a0Any new proof by the 23andme study is missing so far as the authors were unable to recontact any of the 13 resilient indiviuduals for whatever reasons.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study &#8211; repeated\u00a0by many newspapers &#8211; claims genes that rescue even in severe Mendelian disorder:\u00a0cystic fibrosis, Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, familial dysautonomia, epidermolysis bullosa simplex, Pfeiffer syndrome, autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome, acampomelic campomelic dysplasia and atelosteogenesis. A comprehensive screen of 874 genes in 589,306 genomes led to the identification of 13 adults harboring mutations for 8 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2016\/04\/no-there-are-no-super-humans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No, there are no super humans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}