The genetic mystery of the woman who doesn’t grow

Twenty year oldย Brooke Greenbergย hasnโ€™t grown since age five. For the last 15 years mystified doctors have been unable to explain the cause for Brookeโ€™s disorder that has kept her aging in check. At age twenty, she maintains the physical and mental appearance of a toddler.

Eric Shadtย wants to solve this most bizarre of medical mysteries. Director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, Shadt is leading research to uncover the genetic cause for Brookeโ€™s condition.

View the original article here:ย SCIENTISTS WORK TO UNRAVEL MYSTERY BEHIND WOMAN WHO DOESNโ€™T GROW

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