The construction of Cavite Boulevard, which we now more famously know as Roxas Boulevard (and, beyond the intersection with NAIA Road, the ManilaâCavite Expressway) necessitated reclamation works until the old Fort San Antonio Abad, now inside the compound of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
Albinism includes a group of inherited disorders that are characterized by little or no production of the pigment melanin. The type and amount of melanin your body produces determines the color of your skin, hair and eyes.
Albinism. Albinism is characterized by the lack of dark pigment melanin in the skin, hair and iris. Caused by the absence of thyrosinase which is necessary for the synthesis of the pigment melanin from dihydroxyphenylalanine.ack of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase is due to the the abnormal autosomal recessive gene on chromosome 12. In children, symptoms are mental retardation, decrease pigmentation of hair and skin and eczema. The heterozygous individuals are normal but carriers. It occurs in about 1 in 18000 births among Europeans.