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Albinism is a very serious disease that could end up in death.
Albinism is a recessive inherited defect in melanin, which is metabolism in
which pigment is absent from skin, hair, and eyes. Albinism in hair, skin, and
eyes is called oculocutaneous albinism. Humans that have oculocotaneous albinism
are not able to produce melanin. These people have white, yellow, or yellow
brown hair, very light ( usually blue ) eyes, and very pale skin. Their eyes may
appear pink because they have very little pigment.
Albinism just in the eyes
is called ocular albinism. Which is a dark biological pigment that is formed as
an end product of the metabolism of the amino and tyrosine.
People with
ocular albinism, which only the eye lacks melanin pigment, while everything else
appears normal. People who have this have a variety of the eye disorders because
of the lack of pigment impairs normal eye development. These effected are
extremely sensitive to bright light. Treatment for ocular albinism includes the
use of visual aids and surgery for strabismus.
Albinism is very rare in
humans. There is a one to seventeen thousand chance that a person will have
Albinism. Because of albinism if a person with the disease is exposed to
ultraviolet rays they get very sick or get cancer.
Albinism occurs in all
races, from white, black, to asian. Regardless of skin color the people are
still paler than normal people. Their hair is white and they have pinkish red
eyes.
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There is another type of albinism which is called
Hermansk-Pudlak syndrome. In the is type of the disease there could be problems
with bleeding, and with lung and bowel disease as well. This is a very rare and
uncommon type of albinism.
For almost all types of Albinism both parents or
mates must carry an albinism gene in order for their child to have albinism.
Because the body has two sets of genes, a person may have normal pigmentation
but carry the albinism gene. If a person has one normal gene and one albinism
gene that is still enough to pass the disease on to their children. Even if both
parents have the albinism gene it does not mean they have the sickness. The baby
will have a one out of four chance of getting the disease. This is inherited by
autosomal recessive inheritance.
Albinism is a really horrible disease to
have. It can be life threatening in some conditions. People who have really bad
cases of albinism have to stay inside, live in a “space suit”, or have to wear
sunglasses even while inside. Albinism thought rare is easy to find in people.
All someone has to do to find out if they have albinism is get an eye exam or a
blood test. The testing procedures are very simple. The bad thing about albinism
the worse you have the less chance you have a getting it cured.