There are as yet no effective treatments for primordial dwarfism.

It is rare for individuals affected by primordial dwarfism to live past the age of 30.

Article: Mechanisms and pathways of growth failure in primordial dwarfism.

Most individuals with primordial dwarfism are not diagnosed until they are about 3 years of age.

Since primordial dwarfism disorders are extremely rare, misdiagnosis is common.

Administering growth hormone, therefore, has little or no effect on the growth of the individual with primordial dwarfism.

After birth, growth continues at a stunted rate, leaving individuals with primordial dwarfism perpetually years behind their peers in stature and in weight.

Zarate is the first person to have been identified with Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II.

Primordial dwarfism is a form of dwarfism that results in a smaller body size in all stages of life beginning from before birth.

Defects in this gene are a cause of microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type 1 (MOPD).

Brad and Bridgette were born with a rare genetic condition Microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II.

His insult had been branded "derogatory and deeply offensive" by the Walking with Giants Foundation, a charity that supports people who suffer from primordial dwarfism.

Weng Weng was born with a medical condition known as primordial dwarfism, which caused him to only grow to a height of 2 feet and 9 inches tall.

In January 2008, it was published that mutations in the pericentrin gene (PCNT) were found to cause primordial dwarfism.

More specifically, primordial dwarfism is a diagnostic category including specific types of profoundly proportionate dwarfism, in which individuals are extremely small for their age, even as a fetus.

They concluded that Ferry suffered from a rare genetic form of primordial dwarfism characterised by small, abnormal teeth without roots, and dubbed the condition NMOSR.

In the case of microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism (MOPD) type II there can be increased risk of vascular problems, which may cause premature death.

Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II (MOPD II, or MOPD2)

The five subtypes of primordial dwarfism are among the most severe forms of the 200 types of dwarfism, and it is estimated that there are only 100 individuals in the world with the disorder.

Other causes of dwarfism are spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, diastrophic dysplasia, pseudoachondroplasia, hypochondroplasia, Noonan syndrome, primordial dwarfism, Turner syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) and hypothyroidism.

It is one of 200 types of dwarfism and one of five types of primordial dwarfism and is one of the few forms that is considered treatable in some cases.

The Seckel syndrome or microcephalic primordial dwarfism (also known as bird-headed dwarfism, Harper's syndrome, Virchow-Seckel dwarfism, and Bird-headed dwarf of Seckel) is a congenital nanosomic disorder.

It has been shown that mutations in the U4atac snRNA can cause microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type I (MOPD I), also called Taybi-Linder syndrome (TALS).

Microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism (MOPD) type II is an autosomal multisystem disorder including severe pre- and post-natal growth retardation, microcephaly with Seckel syndrome-like facial appearance, and distinctive skeletal alterations.

While no official diagnosis of the cause of de la Rosa's short stature is known, it has been speculated that he was born with the genetic syndrome MOPD II (microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II).