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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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