Achondroplasia
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Treatments & cures
There are no cures for Achondroplasia but some treatments for the symptoms are:
preventing or curing the signs
visits to the doctors
social and family support
regular visits to the doctors
there are NO CURES!
Genetic causes
It is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, which means one copy of the altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder
The mutation happens during FGFR3
“fibroblast growth factor receptor 3.”