Oh, wow.

[alliancesjr]

Okay, Jillian, you win, and John actually is an Albino.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albino

The type with the usually least amount of pigment is Oculocutaneous albinism type 1 (OCA1) (Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) 203100). People with this type usually have very white skin, white hair and light blue eyes, however there are cases in which the eyes appear red or purple, depending on the amount of pigment present. OCA1 is caused by an alteration of the tyrosinase gene, and can occur in two variations. The first is OCA1A, and means that the organism cannot develop pigment at all. Vision usually ranges from 20/200 to 20/400. The second is OCA1b, which has several subtypes itself. Many individuals with OCA1b can tan and develop pigment. One subtype of OCA1b is called OCA1b TS (Temperature Sensitive), where the tyrosinase can only function below a certain temperature, which causes the body hair in cooler body regions to develop pigment (i.e. get darker). An equivalent mutation produces the coat pattern in Siamese cats.

Comments

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was informative. Who's John?

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

Friend of Jillian's. She said he was technically an albino because he had really pale skin, white hair, and blue eyes, and I said that would ACTUALLY make him an albino if he had red eyes.

I had remembered reading that albinism gave red eyes, not blue, but apparently I was mistaken as the red is quite rare, and blue is the norm.

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

Red eyes would be pretty cool, if you didn't have to take all the other albino stuff with 'em.

Just grab some shite hair dye and an Odachi, and you 'd have to beat the fangirls off with a stick.

Or, you know, the Odachi.

[maryn-neondream.livejournal.com]

Forget that. If I'm going to be skewered by an odachi-wielding albino, he better not be dyeing his hair some lame color. :talk2hand:

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

So forward!

At least let the Bishy buy you dinner before the skewering starts.

[icysnowgirl.livejournal.com]

;.; Is it wrong that I kind of find Albinos to be hot?

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

You're a anime fangirl, it comes with the addiction.

[icysnowgirl.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen or really heard of an Albino until I read 'The DaVinci Code'. I mean, sure, I knew of them. But I didn't really get much of a mental image of one.

<_<; The guy who played the Albino in the movie was scary hot. In, yanno, a scary way. o_o;

[iraenicole.livejournal.com]

Rar! It ignores black albinoes. Discrimination! XD

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

There there, Fae. One day, the world will recognize black albinos, and it will be good.

[iraenicole.livejournal.com]

Hee. They really do exist. XD My best friend is one.

[saint-kyra.livejournal.com]

O: there's a black albino man down here. He just has a white fro. I don't know the color of his eyes, though.

[saint-kyra.livejournal.com]

OH. And I forgot.

BOOYAH.

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

"It's the PIT OF DESPAIR! Don't even think--"

*hack, cough, clears throat*

"--don't even think about trying to escape."