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Progeria: What is it?
Progeria is a progressive genetic disorder that causes accelerated aging, where patients age from 8 - 10 times faster than normal people. It is extremeley rare, with the first child with progeria first describe in 1886, and since then, only about 130 cases of progeria has been diagnosed. The average lifetime expectancy of progeria patients are only 13 even though there have been some that lived to an age of 25!

(picture taken by Jette Sorensen)

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