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- noun medicine Incomplete or abnormal
keratinization occurring prematurely within individual cells or groups of cells below the stratum granulosum.
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Examples
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In this case, they wanted to study a rare, inherited premature aging disorder called dyskeratosis congenita.
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Throughout Ayelet's one-year battle against dyskeratosis congenital, a rare bone marrow disorder, her fearless parents invited the world to join their crusade -- and thousands showed up.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Eleanor Goldberg 2012
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No ordinary teen: Nearly six years ago, Elizabeth received a diagnosis of aplastic anemia and dyskeratosis congenita, two life-threatening illnesses.
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Patients with dyskeratosis congenita often die when they get bone marrow transplants,
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No ordinary teen: Nearly six years ago, Elizabeth received a diagnosis of aplastic anemia and dyskeratosis congenita, two life-threatening illnesses.
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The book is about a mother that discovered that her young son, Omid, was diagnosed with aplastic anemia dyskeratosis-congenita, a rare and fatal blood disease.
PR.com Press Releases Omid's Mission 2010
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Treatments that restore TERC may help dyskeratosis congenita patients, they said.
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Harvard's Dr. George Daley and colleagues were making iPS cells from dyskeratosis congenita patients to do this.
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Defects in cap-independent translation have been shown previously to be linked to diseases such as X-linked dyskeratosis congenita
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Morgan A. Sammons et al. 2010
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Omid's Mission was written, to bring global awareness of aplastic anemia dyskeratosis-congenita, a fatal and rare blood disease.
PR.com Press Releases Omid's Mission 2010
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