What is Imogen Faith Reid's condition? Discover how her dwarfism, Russell-Silver syndrome, shaped her life and led to her ...

Skeleton of L3/66/90, a man with two types of dwarfism. Image credit: P. Namiota, Archive of the Lekno Archaeological Expedition / Int. J. Osteoarchaeol., 2022 (CC BY 4.0) ...

People with dwarfism are often shorter than 4 feet 10 inches. Today there are about 400 different types of dwarfism, which can occur in one in every 10,000 births.

Why so small? Born that way. The condition is know as dwarfism and is caused by a genetic mutation. There are 250 different types of dwarfism. Achondroplasia is the most common.

I did feel throughout my pregnancy that there was something different though, just an intuition. We never suspected dwarfism,” Marcella, 32, tells PEOPLE. “We didn’t care [that] Brody would be a ...

The 31-year-old mom of three explained, “From how I’ve always understood it… [there] are different types of dwarfism. Some are dominant genes and some are recessive.” ...

Dennis was diagnosed with hypochrondroplasia – one of more than 200 different forms of dwarfism – while Lori jokingly calls herself the 'No-Name brand' because doctors have yet to be able to ...

Dwarfism occurs about once in every 10,000 births. In 80 per cent of cases it arises as a spontaneous genetic mutation. In other words, it can happen to anyone.