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- short stature
- graying and/or loss of hair
- osteoporosis
- skin ageing
- cataract
- diabetes
-mental retardation
- predisposition to cancer

defective RecQ helicase (also mutated in Bloom's syndrome)

result in failure of DNA excision repair mechanisms, genome Instability and replicative senescence