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F. D. GILLESPIE, MD; BENITO COVELLI, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1963;70(2):209-213.

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Ocular albinism is a condition of abnormality in the cellular metabolism of the production of melanin in the ocular tissues. This condition, which is well known now, was first described by Nettleship¹ in 1909. The fact that the female heterozygote carriers manifest changes in the fundus and irides is relatively new information. This disease is transmitted as an intermediate sex-linked recessive. Vogt² in 1941 first described changes in female carriers in this disease. Falls⁴ in 1951 described the fundus picture in the carriers also. In addition Francois and Deweer⁵ in 1953, Ohrt⁶ in 1956, Gedda and Magistretti⁷ in 1956, Covelli⁸ in 1959, and Gillespie⁹ in 1961 described families with ocular albinism and carriers with characteristic changes in their fundi. Waardenburg¹⁰ in 1957 showed that female heterozygotes had irides which transilluminated and described a family which included carriers with fundus changes.

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Author Affiliations
Birmingham, Ala

Instructor in Ophthalmology, University of Alabama (Dr. Gillespie).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb 15, 1963.

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