{"id":214,"date":"2020-09-23T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T02:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/orama\/?p=214"},"modified":"2020-10-19T13:32:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T03:02:18","slug":"the-genetics-of-eating-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/2020\/09\/23\/the-genetics-of-eating-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Participate: the genetics of eating disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ember5559\" class=\"feed-shared-update-v2__description-wrapper ember-view\">\n<div id=\"ember5560\" class=\"feed-shared-inline-show-more-text feed-shared-update-v2__description feed-shared-inline-show-more-text--minimal-padding feed-shared-inline-show-more-text--expanded ember-view\" data-artdeco-is-focused=\"true\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"feed-shared-text relative feed-shared-update-v2__commentary ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span class=\"break-words\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Eating disorders are not a choice, rather are serious illnesses and in fact, have one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Researchers worldwide, including Professor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/tracey.wade\" data-attribute-index=\"0\" data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAWlG9wBCOsgu3MzUAILCOb15yRE02eFcLo\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\">Tracey Wade<\/a>, are seeking volunteers with lived experience of eating disorders to participant in the world&#8217;s largest investigation into the genetics of eating disorders.<\/p>\n<p>The global Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI) aims to identify hundreds of genes that influence a person\u2019s risk of developing anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder, to improve treatment and ultimately save lives.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, or to register for the study, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgi.org.au\/\" data-attribute-index=\"9\">www.edgi.org.au<\/a>\u00a0or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:edgi@qimrberghofer.edu.au.\" data-attribute-index=\"10\">edgi@qimrberghofer.edu.au.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating disorders are not a choice, rather are serious illnesses and in fact, have one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness. Researchers worldwide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2396,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1343,1298,1342,1407,1405,1344,1404],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-blackbird-initiative","tag-college-of-education-psychology-and-social-work","tag-eating-disorders","tag-participate","tag-research","tag-tracey-wade","tag-trial"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fimhwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}