date:Dec 24, 2012
t to develop symptoms before they turn a year old. Although their mental faculties are normal, they stop growing, lose body fat and suffer from wrinkled skin and hair loss. Like old people, they have stiff joints and a buildup of plaque in arteries that can lead to heart disease and stroke. Most die before they are 20 years old.
The team at the University of Hong Kong found in 2005 that a mutation in the gene for Lamin A protein, which lines the nucleus in human cells, disrupted the repair pro