According to this information 151 million Americans earned some sort of wages or compensation in 2011. The median wage in the US per person is $26,695. This tells us a lot since the median household income is at $50,500. Since the Census data looks at households, this data hones in on individual wage earners.
For several years, Dr. Wasmuth and his team had suspected that the gene, FGFR3, was responsible for a defect that causes Huntington's disease, a neurological disorder. But they found no link. They took another look after other researchers suggested that the same chromosome region might harbor the achondroplasia gene.
Recent Examples of achondroplasia from the Web. 1  One of the most common is a type of dwarfism called achondroplasia, for which there is a genetic test. 2  For men over 50, the risk of achondroplasia is only slightly more common than 1 in 2,000 births.