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what is difference between vitiligo and albinism?

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Albinism is a genetic disorder caused due to some kind of genetic mutation. The person will have no pigment or little pigment in the skin, hair or eyes. In case of vitiligo, the person is born with normal pigmentation but with time melanocytes die due to which person has patchy skin which is unpigmented.

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