The premature ageing syndromes: Insights into the ageing process

Age and Ageing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-80

  Dyer, Christopher A E ^a   Sinclair, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age related disease; Cockayne's syndrome; Hutchinson Gilford progeria; Premature ageing syndromes; Senescence accelerated mouse; Werner's syndrome

Indexed keywords

AGING; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; BLOOM SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; HUMAN; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; REVIEW; WERNER SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; AGING, PREMATURE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; BLOOM SYNDROME; CELL AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROGERIA; WERNER SYNDROME;

ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 0031982758     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/27.1.73     Document Type: Review

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