Posted by SRIHER on 14 August 2024 in news
14th August 2024
The CSIR Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad has requested
permission from the director of public health, Tamil Nadu government to screen the
population of Paganeri village near Karaikudi where children born with the lethal skin
disease Epidermolysis Bullosa die within two months. Delivering the Prof. SP
Thyagarajan Endowment Oration at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and
Research here today Dr. K. Thangaraj, JC Bose Fellow and CCMB-TIGS Outstanding
Scientist of CCMB who has made the request for the study said there are eight families in
this village who have this mutation. This mutation is not found anywhere else in the
world. We need to screen the whole village of about 5000 people of whom 4000 are in the
reproductive age and children. By identifying the mutation and giving appropriate
counselling we can eliminate this mutation and disease from this specific population
group. In prenatal screening we can find out whether the foetus is carrying the mutation in
two copies or one and recommend continuing with the pregnancy or abortion. In two such
cases we found mutation only in one copy in the foetus and recommended to continue with
the pregnancy and they had normal children without this skin disease. This screening of
the population will take six to twelve months. We will use this model to apply to other
specific populations with unique mutations to eliminate related diseases in the country, he
added.
The oration was organised by the faculty of biomedical sciences and technology and
attended among others by its head Dr. Sudha Warrier, Dean Research Dr. Kalpana
Balakrishnan, Head Clinical Research Dr. Soloman Paul and Dr. P. Venkatachalam,
HoD, Human Genetics.
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Issued by Mr. T.G. Nallamuthu, Consultant, Media Relations, SRIHER 9444265578, 9940399346.
Mr. D. Sivagnanavel, Head-Media & Corporate Relations, SRIHER, 9444 448616.
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