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A Mongolian spot, also known as slate grey nevus or congenital dermal melanocytosis, is a benign, flat, congenital birthmark with wavy borders and an irregular shape. In 1883, it was described and named after Mongolians by Erwin Bälz, a German anthropologist based in Japan, who erroneously believed it to be most prevalent among his Mongolian patients.
A Mongolian blue spot (dermal melanocytosis) is a benign flat congenital birthmark with wavy borders and irregular shape, most common among East Asians and Turkic people (excluding Turks of Asia Minor), and named after Mongolians. It is also extremely prevalent among East Africans and Native Americans.
Mongolian spot (congenital dermal melanocytosis, dermal melanocytosis) Mongolian spot; Mulberry molar; ... Blue nevus (blue neuronevus, dermal melanocytoma, nevus bleu)
Birthmarks are marks on the skin noticeable at birth that are usually completely harmless.
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Almost 90% of Koreans, Manchurians(NE China nowadays), and Mongolians carry this birthmark and they last forever. The Chinese have a blue spot at birth which disappears usually after a few days however this is not the same hereditary birth mark as the Mongolian blue spot.
The birthmark is a Mongolian spot and is apparently homozygous recessive. Nearly all Samoan infants were born with this mark, but any ancestry outside of Samoa, however slight, results in the infant not showing the mark. The birthmark is now very rare in Samoa, and can only be found occasionally on remote islands to the west.
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