Cause of Progeria

    Polgaria is caused by a mutation in genes before birth.  There is no other known reason for cause of progeria.  There are also no risk precautions you can take for this disease.


Signs and Symptoms of Progeria

     This disease will make you look old and look like the parent of a child quickly.  In the first year you will have a growth failure.  Later you will have a small wrinkled face, bald, no eyebrows or eyelashes, you will have a large head for your face, you will have an open soft spot, a small jaw, dry scaly thin skin, and teeth come a lot slower or none at all.  The doctors would do tests to look at your gene letters to see if they are paired up right (one mistake in those letters can cause Progeria).