{"594967":{"#nid":"594967","#data":{"type":"news","title":"You and Some \u0027Cavemen\u0027 Get a Genetic Health Check","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHeart problems were much more common in the genes of our ancient ancestors\u0026nbsp;than in ours today,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/digitalcommons.wayne.edu\/humbiol_preprints\/115\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eaccording to a new study by geneticists at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E, who computationally compared genetic disease factors in modern humans with those of people through the millennia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall, the news from the study is good. Evolution appears, through the ages,\u0026nbsp;to have weeded out genetic influences that promote disease, while promulgating influences that protect from disease. But there\u0026#39;s also a hint of bad news for us modern folks.\u0026nbsp;That generally healthy trend might have reversed in the last 500 to 1,000 years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, who appears to have had the healthier genes? The \u0026ldquo;cavemen?\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;We moderns? And who was more genetically susceptible\u0026nbsp;to mental illness?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/you-and-some-cavemen-get-genetic-health-check\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EREAD about\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;our genomic health heritage here, and meet our Copper Age ancestor, the \u0026ldquo;Iceman.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Evolution has improved upon the genetic foundations of human health ... but could that have changed?"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvolution has improved upon the genetic foundations of human health ... but could that have changed?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Evolution has improved upon the genetic foundations of human health ... but could that have changed?"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2017-08-24 16:57:50","changed_gmt":"2017-10-11 12:14:25","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594975":{"id":"594975","type":"image","title":"Joe Lachance and Taylor Cooper","body":null,"created":"1503595809","gmt_created":"2017-08-24 17:30:09","changed":"1503595924","gmt_changed":"2017-08-24 17:32:04","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226746","name":"CAVEMAN edit DSC_1022.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CAVEMAN%20edit%20DSC_1022.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CAVEMAN%20edit%20DSC_1022.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":374898,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/CAVEMAN%20edit%20DSC_1022.jpg?itok=W1s3Od_p"}}},"media_ids":["594975"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"170712","name":"computational genetics"},{"id":"175296","name":"Iceman"},{"id":"175297","name":"\u00d6tzi"},{"id":"146721","name":"go-genomics"},{"id":"146341","name":"go_genomics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBen Brumfield\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSenior Science Writer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404-660-1408\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}