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Does primordial dwarfism affect the mental capabilities?
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Many diagnoses: Primordial dwarfism means that medicine has not found a cause for such, so it is a basket category that might encompass many different conditions that will be further categorized as our genomic knowlege improves. Most children with primordial dwarfism do have low IQ , but some postulate thatbthis might be related to emotional retardation for not being considered as "full grown".
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