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disease noun affliction, ailment, attack, bodily deviation from health, bout of sickness, breakdown, chronic disability, collapse, condition, contagion, defect, deterioration, discomfort, disorder, distemper, epidemic, handicap, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, invalidism, loss of health, malady, morbus, plague, scourge, sickness, taint, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesome condition, virus, weakness See also: contaminate, disorder, pain, taint How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Neurogeneticists at Duke University's Center for Human Genetics and their international colleagues have identified an abnormality in mitochondria, which produce energy for cells and fuels the nerves requited for muscle control, as the cause of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). His lab has found and studied genes that contribute to diseases including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease, and one of the most common inherited neurological disorders, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease. Jim has a disABILITY called Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (a form of Muscular Dystrophy). |
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