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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci Res. 2018 May 14;97(1):77ā€“87. doi: 10.1002/jnr.24246

Table 1.

Current Albinism Genetics

Albinism type Protein Gene location Protein function Reference
OCA1 Tyrosinase 11q14.3 enzyme (W S Oetting, Fryer, Shriram, & King, 2003)
OCA2 ā€˜Pā€™ gene 15q12-q13.1 transporter (M H Brilliant, 2001)
OCA3 TRP1 9p23 enzyme (Manga et al., 1997)
OCA4 MATP (SLC45A2) 5p13.2 transporter (Newton et al., 2001)
OCA5 4q24 (Kausar, Bhatti, Ali, Shaikh, & Ahmed, 2013)
OCA6 SLC24A5 15q21.1 transporter (Montoliu et al., 2014)
OCA7 LRMDA 10q22.2-q22.3 Leucine rich repeat
OA1 GPR143 Xp22.2 GPCR

For Albinism genetics review see (Montoliu et al., 2014)