Popular Culture
On the episode "Stargazer in a Puddle" from the series Bones, the victim had Werner syndrome.
Werner syndrome was featured in the film Jack, starring Robin Williams, in which his character aged four times faster than normal.
In an early cut scene from the game Metal Gear Solid 4, Hal "Otacon" Emmerich cites "classic Werner syndrome" as the most likely cause of Solid Snake's premature aging, though he goes on to say that testing had been inconclusive.
In season 3 episode 9, " The Ballad of Kevin and Tess", of TV show The 4400, Kevin is said to have Werner syndrome to hide his real condition from the public.
In The Invisible Man (2000 TV series) season 1 episode 6, "Impetus", the new character Gloria has an experimentally altered type of Werner syndrome that causes it to become contagious.
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