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Seeing Is Believing: White Baby Born to Black Parents [VIDEO]

(July 21) -- A black Nigerian couple living in London got the shock of their lives when the wife gave birth to a white baby girl with blond hair and blue eyes. Little Nmachi was born Sunday to Ben and Angela Ihegboro, who -- though filled with joy at the addition to their family -- found themselves confused by their...

Genetic Mystery: Black Brits Birth White, Blue-Eyed Baby

LONDON (July 20) -- Britain's tabloid press has gone gaga over a baby girl with white skin, blue eyes and a mop of blond curls who was born to black parents. The best-selling Daily Mail and The Sun newspapers have labeled the child's Caucasian complexion a mystery, saying genetics experts are "flummoxed" by the case. But...

Deadly Skin Trade Preys on African Albinos

LONDON (Nov. 23) -- East Africa's albinos have long suffered because of the color of their skin. Some are abandoned as babies by parents who regard their lack of pigment as a curse. Many more are subjected to taunts of "zeru" (Swahili for ghost) in school and on the street. But now Tanzania and Burundi's 8,000 albinos face...

Background on albinism

Albinism (from Latin albus, "white"; see , also called achromia, achromasia, or achromatosis) is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or defect of an enzyme involved in the production of melanin.

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