Dwarfism News and Research

The most widely accepted definition of a dwarf is a person with an adult height of less than 4 feet 10 inches (147cm). In older popular and medical usage, any type of marked human smallness could also be termed dwarfism. People who are affected by dwarfism are often referred to as "little people".

Study reveals that KCNE2 and KCNQ1 mutations can results in thyroid dysfunction

21. September 2009 02:15

Genes previously known to be essential to the coordinated, rhythmic electrical activity of cardiac muscle -- a healthy heartbeat -- have now also been found to play a key role in thyroid hormone (TH) biosynthesis, according to Weill Cornell Medical College researchers. [More]

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Tags: Alopecia, Arrhythmia, Atrial Fibrillation, Baldness, Biopsy, Bone, Bone Marrow, Brain, Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Deep Brain Stimulation, Dwarfism, Education, Gene Therapy, Genetics, Hospital, Hypothyroidism, Neuroscience, Obesity, Parkinson's Disease, Penicillin, Pharmacology, Potassium, Potassium Channel, Pregnancy, Psychiatry

Discovery of key gene for bone development that when mutated lead to dwarfism

9. July 2009 15:47

Scientists have just discovered the gene behind Recessive Omodysplasia, a rare skeletal disease characterised by short-limbed dwarfism and craniofacial anomalies. [More]

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Tags: Bone, Dwarfism, Genetics, Omodysplasia

TV series brings dwarfism into the spotlight

1. April 2009 20:51

A popular cable reality television show, Little People, Big World, focuses on the daily lives of short stature individuals. [More]

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Posted in: Medical Condition News

Tags: Brain, Dwarfism, Dysplasia, Growth Hormone, Kyphosis, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, Spinal Stenosis, Spine, Stenosis

Genetic testing may not lead to demand for 'designer babies'

27. January 2009 06:13

A new study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center found a high desire for additional genetic testing among consumers for life altering and threatening medical conditions including mental retardation, blindness, deafness, cancer, heart disease, dwarfism and shortened lifespan from death by 5 years of age. [More]

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Tags: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Dwarfism, Genetics, Menopause, Parkinson's Disease

In-breeding in pedigree dogs means debilitating genetic diseases

19. August 2008 03:29

Research in the UK by the BBC has revealed that pedigree dogs are being bred with debilitating genetic diseases and the culprit is the breeding process used to produce pedigree dogs. [More]

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Tags: Brain, Dwarfism, Epilepsy, Syringomyelia

Apert's syndrome - new discovery

14. July 2008 17:29

In a cruel irony, testis cells carrying the mutation that causes Apert's syndrome are fitter than normal cells, even though children born from sperm derived from those cells are weakened by fused fingers, toes and skulls, a new study has found. [More]

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Posted in: Medical Condition News

Tags: Cancer, DNA, Dwarfism, Genetics, Sperm

Small-bodied humans from island of Palau

10. March 2008 18:03

Since the reporting of the so-called "hobbit" fossil from the island of Flores in Indonesia, debate has raged as to whether these remains are of modern humans (Homo sapiens), reduced, for some reason, in stature, or whether they represent a new species, Homo floresiensis. [More]

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Tags: Brain, Dentistry, Dwarfism

New Cockayne syndrome discovery

21. August 2007 16:20

Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have shown that the genetic defect that causes Cockayne Syndrome affects a key function of the cell – the transcription of genes coding for ribosomal RNA. [More]

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Posted in: Medical Research News

Tags: Bowel Cancer, Cancer, Chromosome, DNA, Dwarfism, Education, Rare Disease

Men have a biological clock too and produce poor quality sperm as they age

6. June 2006 07:00

Researchers in the U.S. say that even though men are able to father children well into old age, the quality of the sperm declines as men age. [More]

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Posted in: Men's Health News

Tags: Abortion, Cancer, Chemotherapy, DNA, Down Syndrome, Dwarfism, Fertility, Genetics, Infertility, Menopause, Pregnancy, Semen, Smoking, Smoking Addiction, Sperm

Farnesyltransferase inhibitor may improve progeria

17. February 2006 15:09

UCLA researchers found that an experimental cancer drug improves the signs of progeria in a mouse model. Progeria is a rare genetic disease causing accelerated aging and cardiovascular disease in children. The new UCLA findings help to define a new strategy for treating children with progeria. [More]

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Posted in: Drug Trial News

Tags: Baldness, Bone, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Dwarfism, Osteoporosis

GM mice live longer and give hope for anti-aging treatments

8. May 2005 17:56

U.S. scientists have produced genetically modified mice that live 20 per cent longer than normal and may have possibly discovered an approach to extending the human lifespan. [More]

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Posted in: Medical Science News

Tags: Ageing, Antioxidant, Dwarfism, Hydrogen Peroxide, Metabolism, Pathology

Scientists extend the lifespan of mice

5. May 2005 18:11

Scientists at the University of Washington and their colleagues at other research centers have found a way to significantly extend the lifespan of mice while reducing the impact of the aging process. Their study, which will be published online by the journal Science on May 5, lends more credence to the free-radical theory of aging. [More]

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Tags: Cancer, DNA, Dwarfism, Hydrogen Peroxide, Metabolism, Pathology

Signaling molecule involved in osteoarthritis identified

4. January 2005 06:38

Using naturally-occurring mutant mice with a defective collagen gene, scientists at Harvard have identified a signaling molecule involved in one of the most common causes of disability among the elderly in the United States, osteoarthritis. [More]

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Tags: Arthritis, Biochemistry, Bone, Cartilage, Collagen, Dentistry, Dwarfism, Genetics, Osteoarthritis, Seniors

Pregnant women with high levels of thyroid hormone may pass on toxins to their developing fetus

11. August 2004 11:10

A study published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that pregnant women with high levels of thyroid hormone may pass on toxins to their developing fetus. [More]

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Posted in: Drug Trial News

Tags: Birth Weight, Bone, Dwarfism, Embryology, Hospital, Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism, Jaundice, Pregnancy

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Dwarfism News and Research

Study reveals that KCNE2 and KCNQ1 mutations can results in thyroid dysfunction

Discovery of key gene for bone development that when mutated lead to dwarfism

TV series brings dwarfism into the spotlight

Genetic testing may not lead to demand for 'designer babies'

In-breeding in pedigree dogs means debilitating genetic diseases

Apert's syndrome - new discovery

Small-bodied humans from island of Palau

New Cockayne syndrome discovery

Men have a biological clock too and produce poor quality sperm as they age

Farnesyltransferase inhibitor may improve progeria

GM mice live longer and give hope for anti-aging treatments

Scientists extend the lifespan of mice

Signaling molecule involved in osteoarthritis identified

Pregnant women with high levels of thyroid hormone may pass on toxins to their developing fetus

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