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Congenital non-syndromal autosomal recessive deafness in Bengkala, an isolated Balinese village.


ABSTRACT: Bengkala is an Indonesian village located on the north shore of Bali that has existed for over 700 years. Currently, 2.2% of the 2185 people in this village have profound congenital deafness. In response to the high incidence of deafness, the people of Bengkala have developed a village specific sign language which is used by many of the hearing and deaf people. Deafness in Bengkala is congenital, sensorineural, non-syndromal, and caused by a fully penetrant autosomal recessive mutation at the DFNB3 locus. The frequency of the DFNB3 mutation is estimated to be 9.4% among hearing people who have a 17.2% chance of being heterozygous for DFNB3.

SUBMITTER: Winata S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1050426 | biostudies-other | 1995 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Congenital non-syndromal autosomal recessive deafness in Bengkala, an isolated Balinese village.

Winata S S   Arhya I N IN   Moeljopawiro S S   Hinnant J T JT   Liang Y Y   Friedman T B TB   Asher J H JH  

Journal of medical genetics 19950501 5


Bengkala is an Indonesian village located on the north shore of Bali that has existed for over 700 years. Currently, 2.2% of the 2185 people in this village have profound congenital deafness. In response to the high incidence of deafness, the people of Bengkala have developed a village specific sign language which is used by many of the hearing and deaf people. Deafness in Bengkala is congenital, sensorineural, non-syndromal, and caused by a fully penetrant autosomal recessive mutation at the DF  ...[more]

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