Albinism

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I'm just curious about this. Let's just say an African American person who had albinism was married to another African American person and they had children, would their children be born with possibly lighter skin and hair colour? It's kind of like when mixed race couples have babies and the baby's features are usually slightly lighter than the parent with darker features. (I'm mixed race, Dutch/Filipino) Would the baby have lighter features because of the parent with albinism or does the parent with albinism carry the dominant gene which is usually darker features and carry it over to the baby? I'm not asking what are the chances of the baby being born with albinism but will the baby probably have lighter features because of the parent with albinism?

Since albinism results from a recessive allele, the baby would not be albino. But since skin color is a result of polygenic inheritance (multiple genes = different gradations of lightness/darkness), I would guess that the baby would exhibit a slightly lighter skin color.

Genetic & maybe "melanin" & maybe where they living?

Phenylketonuria or overload with something like Aspartame & maybe alcohol mixed.

Can't remember if got it right, but I know phen & melanin are on correct side. The hole picture of this:- They is one missing on the left & one missing after dopamine. I think I will try and find the image again.

http://www.bupa.co.uk/individuals/healt ... lketonuria

Too much breaks this
Phenylalanine / / tyrosine


tyrosine side attached
melanin / dopamine


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