Albinism
Albinism is a rare inherited defect in melanin metabolism. Albinism can affect two things, the skin and eyes which is called oculocutaneous albinism or just the eyes which is ocular albinism. The word "albinism" refers to a group of inherited conditions. People with albinism have little or no pigment in their eyes, skin, or hair. They have inherited genes that do not make the usual amounts of a pigment called melanin. One person in 17,000 in the U.S.A. has some type of albinism. Albinism affects people from all races. Most children with albinism are born to parents who have normal hair and eye color for their ethnic backgrounds. Often people do not recognize that they have albinism. (NOAH). Oculocutaneous albinism is from autosomal recessive inheritance; ocular albinism is from an X-linked recessive trait that causes hypopigmentation. In the United States both types of albinism are more common in blacks then in whites, Native Americans have a high incidence of the tyrosine-positive form (1 in 140 to 240). Infants wit
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