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ORPHA:231178Clinical subtype
Also called USH2
What it is
A rare ciliopathy characterized by congenital moderate-to-severe deafness, retinitis pigmentosa developing in the first or second decade, and normal vestibular function. Congenital bilateral sensorineural hearing loss is mild to moderate in the low frequencies and severe to profound in the higher frequencies. Additional manifestations include night blindness, constricted visual field (tunnel vision), and later on decreased visual acuity sometimes ending with bare light perception.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- 1-9 / 100 000 (Denmark)
- Age of onset
- Infancy, Neonatal
- Inheritance
- Autosomal recessive
- Classified as
- Clinical subtype
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Very common80–99%
7Common30–79%
8These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
Genes
1 modifying gene — variants that can change how the disease behaves, not cause it
ICD-10 codes
ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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