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Temperature sensitive oculocutaneous albinism associated with missense changes in the tyrosinase gene

T Wang et al. Br J Ophthalmol. 2005 Oct.

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Clinical photographs of patient. Note the yellow blonde hair, dark eyebrows, and strongly pigmented forearm hair. (Photograph reproduced with permission of the patient.)

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Mutations in tyrosinase gene.

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