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My son has Russell-Silver Syndrome....It has NOTHING to do with the amount of fluid around the baby. It is a form a Primordial Dwarfism, meaning, that the baby was conceived that way. It is definitely something genetic, but it's exact genetic cause or marker is not yet known.

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