Sentences with phrase «rare premature ageing»

For now, the only diseases clearly caused by shortened telomeres or dysfunctional telomerase are rare premature aging disorders like dyskeratosis congenita.

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In 1998, Leslie Gordon's toddler son Sam was diagnosed with an exceedingly rare and invariably fatal disease, Hutchinson - Gilford progeria syndrome, which in many ways resembles premature aging.

A rare, premature aging disease, Hutchinson - Gilford progeria is caused by a single point mutation in the gene encoding lamin A, which forms a protein scaffold on the inner edge of the nucleus that helps maintain chromatin structure and organize nuclear processes such as RNA and DNA synthesis.

On the other hand, a rare «genetic condition» called progeria — accelerated premature aging — can develop in infants and young children which is not actually genetic in nature yet appears through a «new» point mutation on a specific chromosome.