Psychology 261 Instructor: Ms Anne Thomas, M.A. October 5, 2000 Page 1 Imagine in your early adolescents being diagnosed with a disease that increases your aging. Doctors tell you that there is no known cure and that you will die by the age of fifty. There is a disease that increases your aging, that disease is known as Werner Syndrome. A medical student named Carl Wilhelm Otto Werner (1879-1936) first diagnosed this syndrome in 1905. The University of Kiel …showed first 75 words of 571 total…

…showed last 75 words of 571 total…Syndrome .Schellenberg states, “When you see something go wrong then you’ve got a handle on when things go right. RESOURCE PAGE  Hewitt, Duane Premature Aging gene Cloned. Science :272:199 December 10, 1996 www.lucifer@.com  Lombard, D.B and Guarantee , L. (1996). Cloning the gene for Werner syndrome: a disease with many symptoms of premature aging. TGI 12, 283-236.  Los Angeles Times(Los Angeles California) Copyright, April 12, 1996 pp.A1+  SIRS Knowledge Source Copyright 2000 SIRS Mandarin , Inc. webmaster@sirs.com