Sentences with word «albinism»

He commended the Commission for providing People Living with Albinism with magnifying glasses during the recently conducted Anambra governorship elections.

Variants in TYR were previously reported to be related with white coat color in domestic cats as well as with a form of albinism in people.

An isolated village in western Java has possibly one of the highest rates of albinism in Indonesia — and nobody seems to know why.

Such Siamese has the inherited partial albinism gene that prevents initially blue eyes from darkening with the age.

Doctors said that Rosamere and her ex-husband both carried the gene for albinism.

Although the pediatrician's physical examination was unremarkable except for the general hypopigmentation, eye findings consistent with oculocutaneous albinism were noted by the ophthalomologist.

Interestingly, the White German Shepherd Dog recessive gene doesn't cause albinism.

Manganese toxicity has been reported to produce albinism in some Siamese cats; a deficiency of manganese in other species results in bone dyscrasia.

Being born without skin pigmentation in the U. S., a condition called albinism, does not usually shorten an individual's lifespan.

Rejected, prejudiced and discriminated individuals suffering from albinism in Southern Africa are likely to become targets and victims of physical attacks and mutilations.

Albino kittens have turned up more recently in the Bengal breed, unsurprising since albinism is found in the Asian Leopard Cat (the wild parent of the Bengal).

Espinasa, L., Centone, D. M., and Gross, J. B. (2014) A contemporary analysis of a loss - of - function of the oculocutaneous albinism type II (Oca2) allele within the Micos Astyanax cave fish population.

Purebred are far more prone to albinism because they are bred within a restricted gene pool.

State Sen. Kathy Marchione, R - Halfmoon, carries one bill that would codify porphyria, xeroderma pigmentosa, and severe drug photo - sensitivity as exempting conditions and also add albinism, as the DOH is seeking to do now.

Known in Catalan as Floquet de Neu, Snowflake became a famous resident of the Barcelona Zoo in Spain because of his unique skin color, the result of a rare albinism gene inherited from both parents.

Researchers such as geneticist Richard King of the University of Minnesota and cell biologist Vitali Alexeev of Thomas Jefferson University are working on gene therapies or drugs that would fix albinism - causing mutations.

«In Namibia for example albinism is explained by the mother having sex with a white man or a ghost.

A rare kind of human albinism is also caused by mutations in TYRP1, which produces reddish skin colour and ginger hair.

In vitiligo and albinism treatments, according to Gianneschi, the synthetic nanoparticles might work like natural melanin.

A rare inherited disorder that has been identified in about 400 people worldwide, HPS is mainly characterized by decreased pigmentation (ocular or cutaneous albinism) and a lack of platelet dense bodies that causes bleeding problems.

I heard from people with albinism who were professors and raced sports cars and started tech companies.

And finally, the description of the entity is as follows: an almost blind, telepathic, tall man with long hair and albinism disease, which causes a lack of pigmentation in the eyes, hair, and skin.

The Siamese cat has a form of partial albinism due to an enzyme that blocks melanin, but this enzyme that produces light coat color is inactivated by cooler body temperature.

However, you can also recognize albinism in cats in their eyes, which are usually pale blue or show heterochromia, that is, each eye is a different color.

Dogs with albinism often become deaf or blind, and they're prone to sunburn, so they require special care and attention.

True albinism is pretty rare, while white cats are seen much more commonly.

Since albino cats are not white to begin with, the notion that there is any causal link between albinism and deafness is equally fallacious.

Albinism touches every ethnic group and is characterized by the insufficiency of melanin that determines skin and hair color.

Perhaps it's a biological imperative to stop albinism or something.

Other interesting points, blonde, and blue eyes are caused again by absence of pigment or lesser pigment, the mutation that turns of pigment production in the iris which also causes blue eyes is the same mutation that can cause albinism.

If herds decline and inbreeding increases (which experts say hasn't happened yet), mutations like the one that produces albinism — a failure of the body to generate pigment — could increase.

But the best advice came from a man with albinism, who told me to just «let your kid be a kid.»

What if a test picks up the gene for albinism?

Another focus of the section involves Hermansky - Pudlak syndrome (HPS), a rare disorder of oculocutaneous albinism and bleeding due to abnormal formation of intracellular vesicles; some patients also suffer a fatal pulmonary fibrosis.

White cats are cats that simply have white fur, while albino cats are cats that have a genetic condition where they lack melanin called albinism.

Positive Exposure utilizes photography and video to transform public perceptions of people living with genetics, physical, and behavioral differences - from albinism to autism.

Since albinism is not known to affect Siberian huskies and white isn't considered a naturally occurring color, if the Chukchi saw an all - white dog, it would have been the product of a rare genetic fluke.

An isolated village in western Java has possibly one of the highest rates of albinism in Indonesia — and nobody seems to know why.

It explores the aesthetics of Albinism in contrast with the idealized perception of beauty.

The clinic also screens embryos for «albinism or other ocular pigmentation disorders» as well as a range of genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome and haemophilia.Eugenics is fine, as long as you don't alter eye and hair colour.

It the region where people with albinism are killed for sake of richness (belief), it is the region where people sacrifice even their children so as to get gold or diamond and its the region where the main trucks from Dar es Salaam to Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DRC pass across, thus high rates of HIV / AIDS.

The article didn't note whether Rosamere's ex was also father to her next child, Rebeca, who does not have albinism, but her youngest was unafflicted and fathered by a different man.

This mutation is probably the oldest one causing albinism and, putatively, originated during humankind's development in Africa.

Individuals with albinism are often legally blind.

The most common forms of albinism are oculocutaneous type 1 (OCA1) and type 2 (OCA2).

People with albinism may also experience premature skin aging, because UV - blocking melanin helps to prevent wrinkling and the loss of the skin's elasticity.