Word: prader
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...fewer need the product. Such diseases and their drug treatments therefore are said to be "orphaned." Orphan diseases include cystic fibrosis, a deadly hereditary disorder that affects 40,000 Americans; Tourette's syndrome, a neurological abnormality characterized by tics and involuntary outbursts of swearing (100,000 Americans); Prader-Willi syndrome, a children's ailment that causes huge weight gains and often kills its victims before they are 20 (2,000); Wilson's disease, a condition marked by abnormal accumulation of copper in the liver and brain (1,000); Huntington's chorea, the degenerative disease...
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