Do you get Caucasian Albino's or is it an Afro/Caribbean thing?

Question

Do you get Caucasian Albino's or is it an Afro/Caribbean thing?

Answer 1

Albinism can affect anyone of any race, and for that matter, many animal species as well.

It is a recessive trait related to what genes you inherit from your biological parents, not ethnicity.

Answer 2

Skin color is caused by both the production and deposition of melanin pigments.  If a person has two mutant copies of a gene involved in the production pathway s/he won't make the pigment and will be an albino.  Alternatively, the person might produce pigment, but be missing enzymes responsible for depositing it in the skin.

Any person could carry a mutant copies of these genes.

Answer 3

You do get white albinos, we had a little girl in our street when I was growing up, she had pink eyes and very little vision (I think a lot worse than Darnell's).

Answer 4

Yes, but they're not all kin-slayers who need a symbiotic sword to stay alive!

Answer 5

yes but its not so obvious in a white person,