In 1981, Cavallone directed two surrealist erotic-thrillers, each featuring an achondroplastic dwarf in the lead role : " Baby Sitter " and " Pat ".
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Moreover, several subcultures have arisen _ of people who were born deaf, or achondroplastic or intersexual _ who do not want to be regarded as handicapped and do not want to be " repaired ."
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Average height for an adult man or woman diagnosed with achondroplasia is about 120 centimeters ( 47.2 inches ), although technically a maximum of 148 centimeters ( 58.2 inches ) is also considered achondroplastic.
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But Dolores Malaspina, a Columbia University researcher who has investigated the links between paternal age and schizophrenia, said evidence of risk attached to late fatherhood as been building for 100 years, since scientists noticed that achondroplastic dwarfs were frequently the last siblings born in large families.
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The first link was announced in late July, when scientists from the University of California at Irvine said that achondroplastic dwarfism resulted from a defect in the gene that allows the body to produce fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 ( so numbered because it was the third of the growth factor family to have been discovered, in the 1980s ).
