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Michael Jackson suffered from a skin disease called Vitiligo. Which the

human skin color can range from almost black (due to very high concentrations of the dark brown pigment melanin) to nearly colorless (appearing pinkish white due to the http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Blood_vessels under the skin) in different http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Homo_sapiens. Skin http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Color is determined primarily by the amount and type of Melanin, the http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Pigment in the skin. Variation in skin color is largely due to genetics.

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