{"id":11,"date":"2015-11-01T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T12:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandzu.com.au\/seed\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:24:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/edgi\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About EDGI"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h1>About EDGI<\/h1>\r\n<h4>The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI) is the largest genetic investigation of eating disorders ever performed.<\/h4>\r\n<p>The New Zealand arm of EDGI aims to identify the genes that predispose people to developing anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder and avoidant\/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) in order to improve treatments and ultimately save lives.<\/p>\r\n<p>New Zealand aims to recruit more than 2000 people who have been diagnosed with an eating disorder, including a control group (people without eating disorders), by March 31, 2026.<\/p>\r\n<p>This study aims to identify hundreds of genes that influence a person&#8217;s risk of developing anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, avoidant\/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), and other eating disorder related conditions.<\/p>\r\n<p>Identification of the genes that predispose people to eating disorders will revolutionise future research into causes, treatment, and prevention of the illness.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<h4>How to participate<\/h4>\r\n<p>Recruitment for EDGI-NZ is currently paused.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:edgi@otago.ac.nz\">edgi@otago.ac.nz<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":27392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/edgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/edgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/edgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/edgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/edgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/edgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/edgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}