Researchers from the U.S. and France have now discovered which gene may be responsible for early aging. By a mutation in the LMNA gene on the first chromosome to children aging, which is known in the industry as the Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome is triggered. Scientists are aware that this knowledge will be accelerated by the development of tests and therapies, can be detected early by what this syndrome.
In early childhood is a rare syndrome, which first appeared in 1886 in the public. So far there are about 100 people around the world who are affected. In this disease, affected children to age in fast motion. Unlike normal children, they grow about ten times as fast. Especially dangerous is this, because having children who are affected, starting at the age of three high-grade Vergreisungserscheinungen. These include dwarfism and other age-related problems that can be detected externally and organically.
Children who age prematurely, are on average only 20 years old. By the disease, they die from typical age-related diseases such as heart attack, cancer or stroke. Although it due to the discovery of this gene initiated the first steps to solve the riddle of the disease. For the development of appropriate drugs or treatment methods, this is however not sufficient. To develop a drug that researchers expect several years of intensive work.
