million children face this problem. The disease is called Progeria (also known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome.) Progeria is a very rare terminal condition. Progeria‚ affects both males and females of all ethnic backgrounds. The term Progeria comes from the Greeks and it means "prematurely old". In the following paragraphs I will be discussing symptoms of Progeria‚ treatments‚ and other facts about this rare but serious disease. Progeria is named after Jonathan Hutchinson‚ who first described
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Hutchinson-Gilford Syndrome‚ commonly referred to as progeria‚ is a disease that has this effect on a significant amount of children around the world. Although there are many different forms of progeria‚ Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome is the classic type. The name progeria comes from Greek origin and means “prematurely old”. Those who suffer from this disease take on the effects of early aging. Although their bodies begin to age early in life‚ children with progeria maintain an intelligence level that is
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Hutchinson-Gilford Disease (Progeria) Only one in every four million kids is known to be diagnosed with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome‚ or most commonly known as Progeria syndrome or “Aging disease.” Progeria syndrome was first founded in 1886 by Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson and by Dr. Hastings Gilford in 1904. Progeria Syndrome is extremely rare and newborns appear to be normal at birth until the first year when the first signs of symptoms begin to appear. Since first found‚ only 130 cases have
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Progeria Progeria‚ also known as HGPS (Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome)‚ is a very rare genetic condition. The word Progeria comes from the Greek “progeros” meaning ’prematurely old’. HGPS was named after Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson‚ who first described the disease in 1886‚ and Dr. Hastings Gilford who also discovered it in 1904 (Nordqvist‚ C. (2015‚ April 08). The most frequent type of progeria syndrome is Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome. It’s a rare and terminal genetic disorder. Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch
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Progeria‚ also known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome‚ is a rare‚ fatal genetic condition causing visible appearances of accelerated aging in children. This affects children and makes them look as if they have aged too quickly as well as other characteristics. But when was the first case of this rare disease discovered? And how did they overcome it? Doctors Jonathan Hutchinson (1828 – 1913) and Hastings Gilford (1861 – 1941) were the very first doctors to discover this disease in 1897
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Progeria is known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS). Progeria is a mutation that occurs within your genes. This disorder is extremely rare but fatal. In the gene Lamin A is the mutated protein gene. LMNA is responsible for giving instructions to make the protein Lamin A within the cell. This protein‚ Lamin A‚ is necessary for holding the center of a cell together‚ known as the nucleus (Progeria Research Foundation). The failure of LMNA results in making all the cells destabilized. The
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Progeria‚ otherwise known as Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome is an extremely rare‚ generic childhood disorder with reported incidence of about one in a million. Hutchinson has reported the syndrome in 1886 when he found the first patient with Progeria. In 1904 Gilford described a second case of Progeria‚ thus creating the term to reflect the syndrome ’s senile features. There are only about a hundred reported cases since the disorder has been discovered over a century ago. Currently‚ there are
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Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome by Jack Be Nimble Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) is a rare‚ fatal genetic condition that is characterized by premature aging in children. Its name is derived from the Greek and means “prematurely old.” There are different forms of Progeria‚ but we will be looking at the classic form that was named after the doctors who first discovered it‚ Dr. Jonathon Hutchinson in 1886 and Dr. Hastings Gilford in 1897. Progeria is a very rare disease and affects
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Bibliography: About progeria. (2006). Retrieved from progeriaresearch.org Learning about progeria. (2011‚ June 27). Retrieved from http://www.genome.gov/11007255 Mayo Clinic Staff. (2011‚ April 23). Progeria. Retrieved from http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/progeria/DS00936 Sarkar‚ P. K.‚ & Shinton‚ R. A. (2000‚ August 29). Hutchinson-Guilford progeria syndrome. Retrieved from http://pmj.bmj.com/content/77/907/312.full Shah. ‚ & Elston (2011‚ September 8). Hutchinson-guilford progeria . Retrieved from
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Progeria‚ the premature fatal aging disorder in children‚ may be able to be reversed through Farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTI) treatments. Formally known as Hutchinson - Gilford syndrome‚ Progeria is a genetic disorder that affects 1 in every 8 million babies born. The disorder is known for its unusual appearance of premature aging in children. Progeria was first discovered when it showed up in a child in 1886 by Dr. Hutchinson. The second case was later discovered by Gilford a year later
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