Progeria Patients (IMAGE)

Duke University

Progeria Patients

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Progeria is a childhood disease with symptoms that resemble accelerated aging. Many affected patients die of heart disease brought on by weakened blood vessels before the age of 14. A single, random point mutation is responsible for the few hundred cases of progeria known in the world today.

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Progeria Research Foundation

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