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Progeria

Progeria. Connor Roesch. How does it happen?. Progeria is caused by mutations in the LMNA gene. The LMNA provides instructions for the protein called Lamin A, Mutations will cause making cells more likely to die prematurely. Progeria is an autosomal dominant, premature aging syndrome

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Progeria

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  1. Progeria Connor Roesch

  2. How does it happen? • Progeria is caused by mutations in the LMNA gene. • The LMNA provides instructions for the protein called Lamin A, Mutations will cause making cells more likely to die prematurely. • Progeria is an autosomal dominant, premature aging syndrome • There is no inheritance pattern it doesn’t get passed down by family.

  3. Symptoms • Baldness- you can recognize it if you don’t have any hair. • Thinness- You can recognize it especially because you can see your bone structure on the outside of your skin. • Lost of eyebrows and eye lashes. • Beaked nose

  4. Other names • Hutchinson-Gliford progeria syndrome • Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome • HGPS

  5. Who gets it and how common is it? • It does not matter what sex or ethnicity you are. • Only 1 out of 4 million babies get it. • Only 130 has got it since 1886

  6. Is it Deadly? • It is deadly because it gives the person that has it a prematue aging and it will give them a weak body. It will make a 4 year old like like an 80 year old. Also it gives you really bad heart condition. People usually die in their teens from a stroke or other heart disese.

  7. Is there a cure? • There is no cure yet • However some children with progeria have undergone coronary artery bypass surgery to ease the life-threatening cardiovascular complications caused by progressive atherosclerosis.

  8. Support Group • Progeria Research Foundation • Progeria Research Fondation, Inc. • P.O. Box 3453 • Peabody, Ma 01961-3453 • 978-535-2594 • Progeriaresearch.org

  9. Other interesting facts and a good story • Someone with progeria ages 7 times faster then someone who doesn’t have it. • A Japanese man lived up to be 45 a world record. • 18 months is the earliest signs that a child shows aging. • www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Progeria-schoolgirl-Hayley-Okines-body-96-year- old-refuses-let-rapid-aging-disease-win.html This girl even though she has progeria still lives her life to the fullest. She has hobbies, she goes to school, plays the wii, and have people come over for sleepovers.

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  11. Credits • "PubMed Health - Progeria." Web. 11 Feb. 2011. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002622>. • Online, Credit Card. Progeria Research Foundation | Home. Web. 11 Feb. 2011. <http://www.progeriaresearch.org/>. • "What Is Progeria?" Medical News Today: Health News. Web. 10 Feb. 2011. <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/146746.php>. • Online, Credit Card. "Progeria Research Foundation | About Progeria." Progeria Research Foundation | Home. Web. 14 Feb. 2011. <http://www.progeriaresearch.org/about_progeria.html>. • "Progeria Syndromes." Rare Diseases - Information About Rare Diseases. Web. 14 Feb. 2011. <http://rarediseases.about.com/cs/progeriasyndromes/a/060803.htm>.

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