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New types of oculocutaneous albinism

Three new types of oculocutaneous albinism have been reported recently. OCA5 was first described by Zubair Ahmed’s lab in a Pakistani family and has been associated with a region within human chromosome 4 (4q24). OCA6 was first described by Wei Li’s lab in a Chinese family and is associated with mutations in the SLC24A5 gene. […]

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