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Progeria |
Progeria narrowly refers to Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome, but the term is also used more generally to describe any of the so-called "accelerated aging diseases". The word progeria is derived from the Greek for "prematurely old". Because the "accelerated aging" diseases display different aspects of aging, but never every aspect, they are often called segmental progerias by biogerontologists. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome is an extremely rare genetic condition which causes phy ...
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Metabolic Disorders Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Nemours Foundation http://www.Nemours.org
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
- Food and Drug Administration
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases http://www.niams.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov/
- National Library of Medicine
- National Human Genome Research Institute http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation http://www.marchofdimes.com/
- Merck & Co., Inc.
- Muscular Dystrophy Association http://www.mdausa.org/
- Save Babies Through Screening
- Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases-National Resource Center
- American Liver Foundation http://www.liverfoundation.org/
- Office of Rare Diseases http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/
- Children's Health Care System, Seattle
- Progeria Research Foundation, Inc.
- Barth Syndrome Foundation
- Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation http://www.ohf.org/
- National MPS Society http://mpssociety.org/
- National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, HHS http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases National Resource Center, NIAMS, NIH, HHS http://www.osteo.org/
- National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- National Library Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- Google Health https://www.google.com/health
Resources
- About Barth Syndrome (Barth Syndrome Foundation)
- About Primary Hyperoxaluria (Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation)
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