Monday 11 June 2012

Donohue Syndrome

The Donohue Syndrome, also know as Leprechaunism, is a very extrangely disease. It name comes from the thing that the things that are afected for the desease has carachteristics from the gnome and they are more little than the rest of the people.
The carachteristics from the face are that the leprechaunism there are that the ears are very long, the spread and introduction of lower lobe, and the lips are thin.
Other carachteristics are: genital changes, enlarged breasts and clitoris in women and penis too long in males as well as a severe dwarfism. That people usually die very quickly.
The leprechaunism is a genetic disease. The mutation is responsable from the Leprechaunism is that the arm is too short, within the coding sequence of the gene for the insulin receptor (INSR), which produces inactive receptor molecules.
The first time that the leprechaunism was in 1948, by W.L. Donohue.




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