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.
Achondroplasia is caused by a gain-in-function mutation in the gene that encodes the FGFR3. In the growth plate, the natural function of FGFR3 is to reduce the growth pace, acting in concert with several other agents, such as CNP.chondroplasia is caused by a gain-in-function mutation in the gene that encodes the FGFR3. In the growth plate, the natural function of FGFR3 is to reduce the growth pace, acting in concert with several other agents, such as CNP.