The Albinism Association of Nigeria (AAN) has called on the federal government to integrate free skin cancer treatment and regular dermatological check-ups for persons with albinism in public ...

Sunscreen is not locally produced in Zambia, making it inaccessible to many - especially those in rural areas where individuals with albinism are particularly vulnerable to the harsh effects of ...

From Ankpa Local Government in Kogi State, the seven siblings lived with albinism. Their extended family rejected them because their mother gave birth to children with albinism. Tragically ...

The Initiative for Advancement of the Albinism Cause (INAAC), a non-governmental organization, has called for urgent support to combat skin cancer among individuals with albinism in Nigeria. Founder ...

A Lancaster University professor says a landmark ruling by the African Court of Human and People's Rights against the government of Tanzania for not upholding the rights of people with albinism is ...

Multiple studies have demonstrated the clinical utility of genetic investigations in individuals with suspected albinism. Despite this, the variation in the provision of genetic testing for albinism ...

As U.S. President Donald Trump toys with slapping massive tariffs on Canadian goods next week, the front-runners vying to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are both vowing to respond with ...

However, the overlap between individuals in the two groups was large, so variations in DNA repair, at least as captured by the assay used, cannot account for a large proportion of any differential ...

such as the misrouting of ganglion cell axons in albinism (141). In addition, the electroretinogram (ERG), which represents the summed electrical response of the retina to light stimuli, can be ...

Correspondence to Dr Laryssa A Huryn, Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Laryssa.huryn{at}nih.gov Background/Aims To characterise the ...