Article
Congenital non-syndromal autosomal recessive deafness in Bengkala, an isolated Balinese village.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 May 1995
Winata S, Arhya I N, Moeljopawiro S, Hinnant J T, Liang Y, Friedman T B, Asher J H
Abstract excerpt
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 s...
Topics
- Alleles
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- DNA
- DNA Probes
- Deafness
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Incidence
- Indonesia
- Male
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid