What is the history of Dwarfism?
Achondroplasia is the most common form of short-limbed dwarfism. A family history of achondroplasia should alert parents to the possibility of having an affected child. Dwarfism gene under scrutiny.(discovery of genes that cause most cases of Dwarfism). Mutated GPC6 Gene Key To Type Of Dwarfism … disease characterised by short-limbed dwarfism and craniofacial anomalies. Team finds dwarfism gene using ancient history, modern genetics. Using a combination of history, population genetics and computational biology, a joint team of US and Finnish scientists has discovered the gene responsible for the third most common form of dwarfism in the United States, and the most common form in Finland. This unique piece of genetic detective work is important not only because it reveals the mechanism of the disease, diastrophic dysplasia (DTD)-and suggests a possible new direction for therapy-but also because it introduces a new method for tracking down human disease genes. The new method, called “l
