
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. OCA7 was first described by Karen Gronskov and Thomas Rosenberg’s labs in a Denish family and is associated with mutations in the C10orf11 gene. These three new types of oculocutaneous albinism have been discussed in a collaborative review just published online in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research:
- 4q24 ==> OCA5
- SLC24A5 ==> OCA6
- C10orf11 ==> OCA7