Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia
Information Center
Welcome to the CHH information site. This site contains links to CHH
related information, pictures, links to the listserv and CHH personal websites.
Billy Barty and Casey Hubelbank.
Billy was the founder of Little People of America in 1957
Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia is a rare syndrome affecting the immune system and
causing skeletal dysplasia. It is also known as Metaphyseal
Chondrodysplasia-McKusick Type . CHH is a recessive gene which means that both
parents would have to be carriers of the gene. The results are 25% average
size no carrier, 50% average size carrier, and 25% CHH.
Currently out of 8000+ members in the Little People of America, only 40 have
been diagnosed with CHH. Using statistics from LPA, I have been able to
determine that the odds of CHH in the United States are somewhere in the
neighborhood of 1 in 1,150,000. Each year at the National LPA
Conference, there is a meeting of people with CHH usually hosted by one of the
members of LPA's Medical Advisory Board. Past presenters have been Dr.
Wright, Dr. Francomano, and of course Dr. McKusick.
Dr. McKusick is the founding father for discovery of
people with CHH. Early in the 60's he set out to do research of the Amish.
In the Pennsylvania Dutch Amish population, CHH occurs in 1 of every 1000
births. In Finland CHH occurs in 1 of every 23,000 births.
This is a link to LPA's Medical Resource Center with Medical Information about CHH
LPA (Little People of America).
A support and advocacy group for people of short stature.
Immune Deficiency Foundation
The National Organization Dedicated to Research, Education, and Advocacy for Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases
Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia List Serv
An E-mail Support Network for people with CHH
Billy Barty Foundation
A Foundation dedicated to improving the lives of people with short stature.
A group of people with CHH in Salt Lake City
Casey and Lynn. Dr. Francamono is standing in the back.
Casey and Annie
This is Linda Hughs. She has CHH and has invented a machine to help us with our breathing problems.
Unfortunatly she has passed on.
Personal Websites or e-mails:
Casey Hubelbank's Website
Ricardo Gil's Site
Arturo Gil's Site
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If you have any questions or
comments send mail to:Casey
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Hubelbank.