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BBC links re albinism
Berek - A619049 William Wallace - Braveheart and Scottish Patriot :o) Started conversation Oct 16, 2001
A quick search on the BBC main site revealed the following article on genetic mutations in general, with a brief mention of albinism:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/gcsebitesize/science_biology/variation/mutation_rev.shtml
Darwin gives some definitions of albinism and its 'opposite', melanism here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/origin/oosglos.htm
and there are a couple of other mentions elsewhere in the same article.
An address for an Albino fellowship in Burnley, Lancashire, as well as a 'further information' link to a 'blindness and partial sight index':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/blind_ps_sc12.shtml
This page claims that Edward the Confessor was albino:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/sceptred_isle/page/5.shtml
Just thought these might be useful follow-up links.
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