Achondroplasia : Causes
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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 ...
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Achondroplasia is a common form of dwarfism or short stature due to an autosomal dominant mutation (a mutation on one of the first 22 "non-sex" chromosomes) that causes an individual to have short stature with disproportionately short arms and leg...
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Achondroplasia is a common form of dwarfism or short stature due to an autosomal dominant mutation (a mutation on one of the first 22 "non-sex" chromosomes) that causes an individual to have short stature with disproportionately short arms and leg...
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Achondroplasia is the most common cause of dwarfism, or significantly abnormal short stature. An x-ray image of an achondroplastic person's head and chest. ( Custom Medical Stock Photo . Reproduced by permission.)
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Hereditary Mutations: Are You at Risk?Your body is always changing.
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In a strict sense, mutations are changes in genes not caused by genetic recombination. A change in the base sequence of DNA , for example, represents a mutational change.
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