Furthermore, skeletal and muscular disorders are often transmitted by a single gene, like achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism characterized by abnormal proportions of the arms, legs and body, results from impaired cartilage growth. Achondroplasia is a birth defect that is familial, passed on from one generation to the next. This genet

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