What causes albinism

Condition characterized by absence of pigment

Medical condition

Albinism is a congenital condition characterized in humans by the partial or complete absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes.

Albinism is associated with a number of vision defects, such as photophobia, nystagmus, and amblyopia. Lack of skin pigmentation makes for more susceptibility to sunburn and skin cancers. In rare cases such as Chédiak–Higashi syndrome, albinism may be associated with deficiencies in the transportation of melanin granules.

Is albinism dominant or recessive

This also affects essential granules present in immune cells, leading to increased susceptibility to infection.^[3]

Albinism results from inheritance of recessive genealleles and is known to affect all vertebrates, including humans.

It is due to absence or defect of tyrosinase, a copper-containing enzyme involved in the production of melanin. Unlike humans, other animals have multiple pigments and for these, albinism is considered to be a hereditary condition characterised by the absence of melanin in particular, in the eyes, skin, hair

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