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The nurse is caring for a patient diagnosed with oculocutaneous albinism. The nurse realizes this health problem is
1. hypopigmentation of the skin, hair, and eyes as a result of an inability to synthesize melanin.
2. characterized by elevated scars, has a familial tendency, and is most commonly found in African Americans.
3. the sudden appearance of white patches on the skin, and has a familial tendency.
4. an autosomal-dominant inheritance disorder that causes hyperpigmentation of the skin, hair, and eyes.
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1. hypopigmentation of the skin, hair, and eyes as a result of an inability to synthesize melanin.
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1 -- Oculocutaneous albinism is an autosomal-recessive, not dominant, inheritance disorder. Oculocutaneous albinism causes hypopigmentation, not hyperpigmentation, of the skin, hair, and eyes as a result of an inability to synthesize melanin. Vitiligo, not oculocutaneous albinism, is the sudden appearance of white patches on the skin, and has a familial tendency. Keloids, not oculocutaneous albinism, are elevated scars, have a familial tendency, and are more commonly found in African Americans.
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