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Achondroplasia is inherited through a dominant autosomal gene that causes odd cartilage formation. The fact that this gene is autosomal and occurs on chromosomes 1-22 means that both males and females are effected. a majority of dwarfism occurs in a gene mutation in normal parents who are average height, but parents with dwarfism has a 50% chance of giving dwarfism to a child, a 25% chance of giving the child a severe skeletal problem, and a 25% chance that the child will be of average height. In this Punnett Square, the capital A represents the dominant gene of dwarfism, while the lower case gene represents a recessive gene. The image to the right represents the mutated dwarfism gene.