Darren's mother is from Cebu in the Philippines, and has Filipino, Chinese, and Spanish ancestry. Darren's father is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has English, and some German and Northern Irish, ancestry.
Description. While dwarfism is sometimes used to describe achondroplasia, a condition characterized by short stature and disproportionately short arms and legs, it is also used more broadly to refer to a variety of conditions resulting in unusually short stature in both children and adults.
What Is Parthenogenesis? Achondroplasia is a form of osteochondrodysplasia in which the bones (osteo-means bones) do not grow to the normal size from the cartilage (chondro-means cartilage) at the end of the limb bones.