International collaboration discovers new cause for dwarfism | Children's National

International collaboration discovers new cause for dwarfism | Children's National

International collaboration discovers new cause for dwarfism Dr. Andrew Dauber's research recently led him and his colleagues to identify a new cause of dwarfism: mutations in a gene known as DNMT3A. The discovery didn’t happen in isolation – it required a rich collaboration of labs spread across the world in Scotland, Spain, France and New Zealand, in addition to Dauber’s lab in the U.S.