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    Read this article yesterday and found it interesting... Wish I had this kid's problem. The picture shown above is his leg at 7 months old

    http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/06/24....ap/index.html






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    Oh dear. Gene mutation.
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    Damn..

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    thats crazy....i wonder how huge this kid is going to be....hopefully he doesnt have and negative side effects...like they noted....his heart(a muscle) may get too big.

    He may be lucky though and have a huge "love muscle"....i crack myself up

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    LOL hardkandee! But gene mutation is a serious topic. Kids die at a young age from it. Personally I dont think its something to joke about. Just my 2 cents.
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    Told ya so.

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    So is batman.

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    Hyperpituitarism, acromegaly, and so on, is not good for humans. Read about Angus McAskill sometime. A little under eight feet tall, a little under 500 pounds, and muscular, would made Shaquille O'Neal look like a 90-pound weakling. Could lift well over a ton above his head. A gentle giant. Died in his thirties.

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    Actually the young man is 5 years old nowand will stay quite muscular all his life. He is a one of a kind in the human race, but his reason for this is not uncommon in other animals. He has a natural lack of a hormone that in the rest of us retards the growth of muscles. Scientists are now studing the young lad to determine if it would be possible to genetically change the gene that controls the production of this hormone in the rest of us to let us stay more physically fit in our later years and also to help those afflicted by muscular desieses or paralysis. Someday our children or grandchildren may owe him a great debt of graditue.

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    The boy's mutant DNA segment was found to block production of a protein called myostatin that limits muscle growth.
    He does not have hyperpituitarism. This is a very different situation than the gentle giants.

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    I was simply starting a laundry list of biological issues around accelerated growth. Perhaps the boy will be all right. However, that is not what we usually see in those people who experience development far outside the norm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Zeno link=board=1;threadid=10450;start=msg128574#msg128 574 date=1088264625
    Hyperpituitarism, acromegaly, and so on, is not good for humans. Read about Angus McAskill sometime. A little under eight feet tall, a little under 500 pounds, and muscular, would made Shaquille O'Neal look like a 90-pound weakling. Could lift well over a ton above his head. A gentle giant. Died in his thirties.
    And from my understanding, living long enough to make it to his 30's is lucky. Most people affected with this condition dont make it far.


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