Achondroplasia Symptoms
Achondroplasia is a disorder of bone growth that causes the most common type of dwarfism.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Achondroplasia is one of a group of disorders called chondrodystrophies or osteochondrodysplasias.
Achondroplasia may be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, which means that if a child gets the defective gene from one parent, the child will have the disorder. If one parent has achondroplasia, the infant has a 50% chance of inheriting the disorder. If both...
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