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ACCORDING to Gates1 the frequency of pure albinos is about 1 in 15–25,000 of the population in Scotland. Owing to the kindness of Miss E. C. MacQuade, an albino woman aged about 45–50 years was brought for colour vision tests. She was a pure albino, according to Gates's classification, having cream-white hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, and only a very slight trace of pigment in the iris. She had a continuous nystagmus owing to photophobia, and a divergent squint, for the same reason, using mainly the left eye while the unused eye wandered. She was very shortsighted. Her mother had fifteen children, seven boys and eight girls. She and a younger sister, now deceased, were the only albinos known among all her relations.
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Gates, R. R., “Human Genetics”, Chapter 9 (1946).
Pickford, R. W., “Individual Differences in Colour Vision”, Chapter 9 (1951).
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PICKFORD, R. Colour Vision of an Albino. Nature 168, 954 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168954a0
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