{"id":1603,"date":"2026-07-07T03:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:50:41","slug":"3-is-lymphoedema-genetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"3. Is lymphoedema genetic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">In many children, yes. Scientists now believe that most cases of primary lymphoedema are caused by changes (variants) in genes involved in the development of the lymphatic system.<br \/>\nSo far, researchers have identified more than 30 genes linked to primary lymphoedema. However, a genetic cause can currently be confirmed in only about one in three children who undergo genetic testing. This means that not finding a genetic variant does not rule out the diagnosis.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many children, yes. Scientists now believe that most cases of primary lymphoedema are caused by changes (variants) in genes involved in the development of the lymphatic system. So far, researchers have identified more than 30 genes linked to primary lymphoedema. However, a genetic cause can currently be confirmed in only about one in three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-causes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilf.cricp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}