Achondroplasia-Description

=**Descripton**= =History=
 * Achondroplasia is the most common form of dwarfism in the world that causes a person to live with short stature among other physical problems.
 * ======Only 1 in every 15,000-40,000 newborns are born with achondroplasia, of these an average of 7.5% die within the first year======
 * ======This is a autosomal dominant disorder meaning that only one gene for this trait has to be dominant for the individual to suffer from the diease======
 * ======About 80% of the people with Achondroplasia don't inherite it from their parents but in from a genetic mutation======
 * ======There are approximately 5,000 people with Achondroplasia in the U.S. and 65,000 worldwide.======
 * ======A person has an increased chance of getting Achondroplasia with the increased age of the parent.======
 * It is possible to prenatally know if a child will have Acondroplasia through ultra sound.
 * Archeologists have many times dug up the remains of achondroplasts
 * It is thought that some may have even had favored positions in the court of the pharoh in ancient Egypt
 * Archeologists have found many statues and portraits of achondroplasts
 * Atilla the Hun is rumored to of had Achondroplasia

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