"Werner Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An autosomal recessive disorder that causes premature aging in adults, characterized by sclerodermal skin changes, cataracts, subcutaneous calcification, muscular atrophy, a tendency to diabetes mellitus, aged appearance of the face, baldness, and a high incidence of neoplastic disease.
| Descriptor ID |
D014898
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C16.320.925 C18.452.284.960
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| Concept/Terms |
Werner Syndrome- Werner Syndrome
- Syndrome, Werner
- Adult Progeria
- Werner's Syndrome
- Syndrome, Werner's
- Werners Syndrome
- Syndrome, Werners
- Adult Premature Aging Syndrome
- Progeria, Adult
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Werner Syndrome" by people in Profiles.
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Ho JC, Zhou T, Lai WH, Huang Y, Chan YC, Li X, Wong NL, Li Y, Au KW, Guo D, Xu J, Siu CW, Pei D, Tse HF, Esteban MA. Generation of induced pluripotent stem cell lines from 3 distinct laminopathies bearing heterogeneous mutations in lamin A/C. Aging (Albany NY). 2011 Apr; 3(4):380-90.
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Sharma A, Awasthi S, Harrod CK, Matlock EF, Khan S, Xu L, Chan S, Yang H, Thammavaram CK, Rasor RA, Burns DK, Skiest DJ, Van Lint C, Girard AM, McGee M, Monnat RJ, Harrod R. The Werner syndrome helicase is a cofactor for HIV-1 long terminal repeat transactivation and retroviral replication. J Biol Chem. 2007 Apr 20; 282(16):12048-57.
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Butler RN, Warner HR, Williams TF, Austad SN, Brody JA, Campisi J, Cerami A, Cohen G, Cristofalo VJ, Drachman DA, Finch CE, Fridovich I, Harley CB, Havlik RJ, Martin GM, Miller RA, Olshansky SJ, Pereira-Smith OM, Smith JR, Sprott RL, West MD, Wilmoth JR, Wright WE. The aging factor in health and disease: the promise of basic research on aging. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2004 Apr; 16(2):104-11; discussion 111-2.