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Werner's syndrome

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Werner's syndrome

In medicine, a rare genetic disorder characterized by premature ageing. By their late twenties sufferers show signs of advanced ageing, with greying hair, wrinkles, and cataracts. They develop cancer, heart disease, and other medical problems usually associated with the elderly, and do not usually survive beyond 50. Werner's gene, located 1996, codes for the enzyme helicase that is involved in the unwinding of DNA before division. The syndrome results from two defective copies of this gene.
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Mutation in the gene WRN is responsible for Werner's Syndrome, which causes people to age rapidly.
Fly gene age clue by The Mirror (London, England)
Investigators have found that people who have Werner's syndrome (WS), a rare disease with several features of premature aging, have a defect in one of their helicases.
Biochemistry and aging by Pamphlet by: National Institute on Aging
The baby could develop Werner's Syndrome, which leads to massive ageing and can kill before victims before they are 50.
Fears cloned baby will be a geriatric before it reaches 5 by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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