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Albino animals often appear to have red eyes because their eyes have no pigment, so they appear the same color as the blood vessels underneath the eyes’ surface. Albinism is a genetic condition ...
Albinism, which is caused by a hereditary genetic mutation, is noticeable among mammals because melanin is the only pigment they produce; without it, their hair, skin and eyes will lack color.
Beneath a white, indifferent sky, a pale boy in a blue-and-red uniform ... like others with albinism, have little or no melanin, or pigment, in their skin, hair, and eyes. They are vulnerable ...
Whitney and Harry were targeted because they have albinism. Thousands of people with albinism ... Attackers had cut out her breasts and gouged out her eyes, and she had been stabbed several times. Two ...
Children born with albinism have poor sight and ... Southampton to have a cataract in his right eye removed. Remi said: "The midwife noticed his red reflex wasn't coming through and we were ...
Squirrels, like the one in Haddington, can be identified as albino if they have a white coat with pink eyes. Natural red squirrels with albinism or leucism, a condition which causes a partial loss ...
In sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated 1 in 4,000 people have albinism. The condition results in a lack of pigmentation in the hair, skin and eyes, causing vulnerability to skin cancer and visual ...