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Progeria: a human-disease model of accelerated aging.
The American journal of clinical nutrition - 1 Jun 1992
Brown W T
Abstract excerpt
Progeria is a rare genetic disease with striking features that resemble accelerated aging. The inheritance pattern, paternal age effect, and lack of consanguinity argue that it is due to a sporadic dominant mutation. We have observed elevated levels of hyaluronic acid (HA) excretion in progeria patients. In several progeria patients we observed normal levels of growth hormone (GH) but very low levels of...
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