Exempel på albinism

• It needs no gainsaying that albinism must in itself constitute a very complex mode of being-in-society.

• None of the others had visual disturbances severe enough to require special educational facilities and none had attended hospital or clinic on account of disabilities caused by their albinism.

• Most people with albinism die of skin cancer before they reach age 30.

• I would like to remind you that albinism affects one in 20 000 people worldwide.

• The term person with albinism is preferred to the term albino.

• The pointed pattern is a form of partial albinism, resulting from a mutation in tyrosinase, an enzyme involved in melanin production.

• However, the diagnosis of albinism in humans is based on visual impairment, which has not been described in white horses.

• Some individual animals and humans have very little or no melanin synthesis in their bodies, a condition known as albinism.

• People with albinism may have white hair due to low amounts of melanin.

• This kind of albinism eliminates melanin and the structural color found in the gene carriers, leaving untouched lipochrome pigments.

• The incidence of albinism can be artificially increased in fish by exposing the eggs to heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, copper, mercury, selenium, zinc).

• A beautiful thing about our albinism is that it serves as a visual symbol of racial unity worldwide.

• He published numerous scientific papers on various subjects, notably epicanthus, colour vision and albinism.

• Her white hair, pink eyes and sensitivity to light suggest she has albinism.

• Piebaldism differs from albinism in that the affected cells maintain the ability to produce pigment but have that specific function turned off.