A Bradford mum has said she feels “ridiculously lucky” after a chance participation in a medical study found her two sons had a genetic change linked to a rare condition.<\/p>\n
Jessica Barker-Roe said she had agreed for her youngest son to take part in the Generation Study – run by Genomics England and the NHS – when she was “bored” during a stay in hospital.<\/p>\n
It found her boys Revan and Thorin had adrenoleukodystrophy, also known as ALD, which affects the adrenal glands and nerves of the spinal cord – but careful monitoring should mean they avoid life-limiting complications.<\/p>\n
The Generation Study is screening 100,000 newborn babies in England for dozens of genetic conditions.<\/p>\n
Jessica, 32, said she first heard about the study during a long stint in hospital while pregnant with Revan, who is now eight months old.<\/p>\n
“The research midwives were just making their way around and chatting to patients, they asked me if I would be interested in signing up to the Generation Study,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Honestly I was just bored so I said, ‘Yeah, whatever’ and put it to the back of my mind.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bradford mum has said she feels “ridiculously lucky” after a chance participation in a medical study found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}