With every type of Dwarfism,
Because Dwarfism is relatively uncommon,
children may feel isolated from their peers.
Dinklage was born with a hereditary disease- achondroplasia, leading to Dwarfism.
Peter the Great had a strange love of“little people,” people with Dwarfism.
The term“stress Dwarfism”, A.K.A.“psychological Dwarfism” points
to how lethal stress can be during these impressionable years.
In fact, these are the same ornamental animals, in the genotype of which the genes of Dwarfism are fixed.
Island Dwarfism has occurred many times around the world in many mammal species, even on Flores, so
it would not be a zoologically unique event.
One existing crop, genetically engineered"golden rice" that produces vitamin A,
already holds enormous promise for reducing blindness and Dwarfism that result from a vitamin-A deficient diet.
A number of pharmaceutical companies are researching these drugs to replace medical use of anabolic steroids for muscle wasting disease,
osteoporosis and some forms of Dwarfism or anaemia.