Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Genetic Disorders
- Progeria
- Inheritance
- LMNA Gene
- Somatic Mutation in Parents
- Characteristics
- Premature Aging
- Misshapen Nucleus
- Detection
- Apprehension of Symptoms
- Genetic Blood Testing
- Treatment
- No Effective Treatment Known
- Treat Symptoms of Aging
- Experimental Treatments
- FRI's (Anti-Cancer Drugs) Limit
Progerin
- Progerin Causes the Misshapen Nucleus
- Physical Effects
- Premature Aging
- Atherosclerosis (Heart Disease)
- Enlarged Head
- Arthritis
- Death by Fourteen
- Affected Population
- First Child
- One in 4-8 Million
- Already Having an afflicted child
- One in 20
- Hypertrichosis
- Characteristics
- Excessive Hair Growth
- "Werewolf Syndrome"
- Inheritance
- Autosomal
- Mutation on 8q Chromosome
- Sex-Linked
- Mutation on 24xq Chromosome
- Multiple Forms
- Detection
- Some forms noticable at birth
- Excessive Hair
- More than Hirsutism
- Physical Effects
- Terminal Hypertrichosis
- Growth of Dark Terminal Hairs
- "Werewolf Syndrome"
- Hypertrichosis Lanuginosa
- White Thin Lango Hairs
- More Common than Terminal
- Localized Hypertrichosis
- Caused by Cancer
- Excessive Growth of Hair in one place
- Affected Population
- Very Rare
- So Rare that I could not find this statistic
- Treatment
- No Known Cure
- Hair Removal
- Chemical
- Laser
- Electrolysis
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