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Can you turn albino

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Yes, black people can be Albino.My little brother Jacueen Foster is albino my mother is fully black and my father is black with a little Indian father has Lupus we think he got it from him.

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Color isn't really a characteristic of "race," it's a genetic ability to produce melanin, a chemical that gives coloring to skin, hair, and eyes. Some people can produce more melanin than others. If your body produces a lot, you are dark. If it produces very little, your hair will be white, your skin pale and your eyes blue or even pinkish-blue, because of the lack of pigmentation, regardless of ethnic background.

There are two main ways a person can lack pigmentation in their skin, hair and eyes:

• There can be a genetic mutation that affects ability to create melanin. Genetic mutations can happen to anyone producing a baby. Genetic mutations may arise from illness, accident, excessive alcohol consumption, advanced age, or exposure to radiation.

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• Healthy parents can be carrying the "albino gene" (genes related to melanin production). This genetic pattern is recessive, so it doesn't necessarily show up in every generation. Just as certain genes for muscular dystrophy, color blindness, or hemophilia may lay "dormant" (unexpressed), the albino genes may be in a person and be passed onto his or her children without him or her knowing it.

Parents carrying albino genes can be of any color-people with albino characteristics are found in all cultures, including Asian, African, Latino, and Caucasian.

Two black parents can have albino children if both of them are carrying the recessive genes and even if they aren't both carrying the genes, albinism can sometimes show up by mutation. If both parents have the recessive gene, approximately half of their children will show albino characteristics.

Genetic mutations aren't always bad. In certain circumstances, they give us new characteristics that help us survive. Light-skinned people have an easier time getting Vitamin D from the sun. Dark-skinned people are better protected against sunburn. What is considered "good" or "bad" depends on circumstances and environment.

Albinism does not normally affect intelligence. It is not like Tay-Sachs disease (which can cause a build-up of substances in the brain that hinder mental function). Certain rare genetic disorders may include albinism (see Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome) but albinism itself exists in many forms, many of which are mild to moderate and not disabling.

Lack of pigmentation may necessitate extra screening from the sun, since people with albinism lack the melanin that protects us from UV rays, and it may impair vision because there's not enough pigment to screen out excessive light from the eyes-but the ability to produce more or less skin/hair/eye pigment is not related to intelligence, physical vigor, or personality.

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You found a person or animal, who is totaly white. This is genetic disorder in which melanocytes are absent in the basal layer of skin of the individual. It is probably 'Nature's arrangement for if there come an ice age. Due to some accidental circumstances. Then these white individuals will get upper hand in the race of survival. As, then they will not be spotted easily.

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Yes. A human can certainly have "albinism". An albino is a person or animal who has pale or colorless skin, eyes, and hair because the body does not produce enough pigment, or melanin. There are various degrees of albinism, leading to different shades of skin and hair pigmentation. Some albinism may affect only the eyes, while some may affect only the skin. It is a fallacy that all abinos have red eyes. Many have blue eyes, while others can still have brown eyes, but be true albinos.

For more information on the way different degrees of albinism can be manifested, see the related link.

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Johnny and Edgar Winter. If you don't know who they are do a web search.

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you don't turn albino. it's an congenital disease. that means that it depends on the genes that you inherit from your parents that determines if you'd be born an albino or not.

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