Las Salinas
| Las Salinas Las Salinas |
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| Coordinates | 18 ° 16 ′ N , 71 ° 19 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Dominican Republic | ||
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| province | Barahona | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | DO-04 | ||
| height | 36 m | ||
| Residents | 5956 (2012) | ||
Las Salinas is a place in the province of Barahona in the south of the Dominican Republic . According to the 2012 census, around 5956 people live in the town west of the Laguna del Rincón, which is directly adjacent to the province of Independencia .
Guevedoces
Las Salinas is an unusually high incidence of rare leaves disorder of sex development due to 5 α reductase 2 deficiency observed in a number of children. Although these have a Y chromosome and male internal organs, they tend to appear outwardly feminine at birth and grow up as girls. During puberty, the onset of male hormones causes virilization and their real gender becomes apparent. At this point they change sex and are raised as boys.
The occurrence was recorded in 1974 in 12 of the 13 families, with one in 90 male villagers aged between 1½ and 60 years being affected. All of these cases could be traced back to a common direct ancestor, Altagracia Carrasco, over a period of 7 generations, which is why a founder effect was discussed.
The term Guevedoche or Guevedoces also comes from Las Salinas , which means something like "eggs with 12" in Spanish ( guevas is a slang term for testicles, doce means twelve). Sometimes the explanation "penis at twelve" is used in both English and German. The term machihembras (literally “male-female”) is also used.
Individual evidence
- ^ World Gazeteer: Dominican Republic
- Jump up ↑ J. Imperato-McGinley, L. Guerrero, T. Gautier, RE Peterson: Steroid 5alpha-reductase deficiency in man: an inherited form of male pseudohermaphroditism. In: Science. Volume 186, Number 4170, December 1974, pp. 1213-1215, ISSN 0036-8075 , PMID 4432067 .
- ↑ The 'Guevedoces' of the Dominican Republic. Urological Sciences Research Foundation. Retrieved February 22, 2013.