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 * Achondroplasia
 * Symptoms
 * Abnormal bone growth
 * Disproportionate legs, arms, and fingers
 * Short
 * Large head
 * Prominent forehead
 * Mid-face hypoplasia
 * Usually have normal life span and intelligence
 * Usually have weak muscle tone
 * may cause delays in walking and other motor skills
 * compression of the spinal cord
 * impaired upper airway
 * Apnea
 * breathing slows downs or stops for short periods of time
 * Obesetiy
 * Chronic ear infections
 * Difficulty walking
 * Bowed legs
 * Curved spine
 * Causes
 * It is usually not inherited
 * It is inherited equally between men and women
 * it is not more prevalent in one sex
 * Usually caused by a new gene mutation
 * most who are affected have parents with a normal structure
 * Parents who have one child with the mutation have little to no chance of having another child with the mutation
 * Mutated people have a 50% chance of having children with the mutation (with each pregnancy)
 * Autism
 * Symptoms
 * Usually appears at the age of three
 * It effects each person differently
 * Mild social and communicative impairments to severe disability requiring lifelong parental, school and societal support
 * The most common symptom is impaired social interaction
 * Dont respond to name
 * Avoid eye contact
 * Dont understand other peoples emotions or communication
 * Make repetitive movements
 * rocking, twirling, jumping, and spinning
 * head banging or biting themselves
 * Mental retardation and 25% will develop seizers
 * Physical features are different from parents
 * Small heads
 * Brain structure malformations
 * Causes
 * Not 100% sure what causes it
 * think that environment and inheritance has something to do with it
 * Can be divided into two categories
 * Idiopathic
 * unknown cause
 * make up 85% of all cases
 * Secondary
 * Chromosome abnormality
 * Single-gene disorder
 * Environmental agent
 * Make up 15% of all autism cases
 * Have abnormal levels of serotonin in the brain
 * Huntington's disease
 * Symptoms
 * Involuntary movements
 * Irrational emotions
 * Cognitive decline
 * Causes death of nearby nerve cells in the brain
 * effects part of brain the controls
 * movement
 * thought
 * perception
 * memory
 * Usually appear in upper to mid life
 * Causes
 * It is inherited neurological illness
 * It is caused by one single abnormal gene
 * chromosome 4
 * which has the gene code for the Huntington protein
 * Children have a 50% chance of getting the disease if their parent has the gene