• Question: How many people in the world has skeletal displasure?

    Asked by Grace03 to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara, Siana on 18 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Richard Unwin

      Richard Unwin answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      Hi Grace,

      Presumably you means skeletal dysplasia, which is often more commonly referred to as ‘dwarfism’. This is actually not a single condition, but a group of around 350 different but related conditions.
      The most common form of skeletal dysplasia, called achondroplasia, affects 1 in every 20,000 people and, while these people are short in stature, they live otherwise normal lives.

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