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Dwarfism can result from a hundred different causes.
The most common cause of this growth disturbance is iStock / miodrag ignjatovic achondroplasia
By: Caroline Paré Follow
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Dwarfism can result from a hundred different causes.
The most common cause of this growth disturbance is achondroplasia, a genetic mutation that can have a significant impact on the state of health, and require appropriate management, to limit complications.
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Beyond the health issue arises that of social integration, the regard of others and stigmatization.
What are the different types of dwarfism?
Are prenatal diagnoses reliable?
What complications can arise?
What types of support currently exist?
Prof. Valérie Cormier-Daire
, professor of genetics, head of the clinical genetics department at Necker hospital for children with sickness, coordinator of the reference center for constitutional bone diseases and head of a research team at the IMAGINE institute
Juliette and Clara Lefebvre
, mother and daughter, suffer from achondroplasia, a genetic disease caused by an abnormality in the growth of bone or the cartilage of the bone.
Clara benefits from new therapies for children's bone diseases at the Imagine Institute in Paris
Dr Yaay Dieng,
geneticist at Dakar University Hospital (Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar in Senegal (UCAD).
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