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.
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.