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Sascha Pare

Teenage girl who lived in Italy 12,000 years ago had a rare form of dwarfism, DNA study shows

Two pictures showing the Stone Age skeletons of two females in an embraced position.

A Stone Age person buried 12,000 years ago in a cave in Italy had a rare genetic disorder that shortened her arms and legs, a new study finds.

A DNA analysis of her skeleton revealed that she was a teenage girl who had a rare form of dwarfism. The finding is the earliest DNA diagnosis of a genetic disease in an anatomically modern human, the researchers said.

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