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Albinism
1Eye Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. isabelle.re@dial.pipex.com
Ophthalmology Clinics of North America
|November 14, 2001
Abstract:
Albinism is a heterogeneous group of conditions having in common a hereditary error of melanin metabolism resulting in misrouting of optic nerve fibers during embryogenesis, underdevelopment of the neuroretinas, and in varying degrees of hypopigmentation of eyes, skin, and hair.