MUTATION STORY
Hello, my name is Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome, or Progeria for short. I’m an extremely rare genetic disorder that speeds up aging at an early age. As babies, children infected with myself usually look normal, but within a year, they start aging really quickly. They have normal intelligence but the symptoms include: baldness, aged-looking skin, a pinched nose, and a small face and jaw compared to head size. As well as this children infected with me experience various symptoms that normally are only acquired by older people: stiffness of joints, hip dislocations and severe, progressive cardiovascular disease. But they don’t experience symptoms such as cataracts and osteoarthritis. How am I made? The LMNA gene codes for two proteins, lamin A and lamin C. The mutation makes a unnatural version of Lamin A. The protein can be harmful to tissues that go through a lot of force, such as the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems.
Here’s my story, all was going well when all of a sudden my LMNA gene code produced an odd looking protein, this messed with the whole cycle, destabilizing the cell membrane thus making it vulnerable.

Thomas Harry was born April 11th 2016 at 9:26pm, for the first year it was fine and the genetic disorder had been forgotten about, but then it started happening. Thomas was getting older, went bald, had to quit sports because of the stiffness in his joints. He was getting bullied at school for looking old, and his small face and jaw in comparison to his grotesque head. He was 13 years old and his life was cutting short, this is all my fault! I could’ve fought the disorder-but NO!I let it happen… he had to die so young my God. At 14 he passed, we all knew this journey wouldn’t last long, he passed away December 2nd 2030. The ironic part about it was that he got hit by a DUI rather then the inevitable heart attack.

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