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This gallery is a collection of skin depigmentation photographs entitled "The Sisters" taken on a beach. The Sisters reveal their white skin spots.
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The
body's pigment production process, melanin synthesis, is like
a factory. Various vitamins, minerals, and enzymes are needed
during different phases on the "assembly line." If an ingredient
is missing or the body cannot make it, then the finished product,
pigment, cannot be made. Melanin is the pigment in the body that
colors skin and hair. It is produced in cells called melanocytes.
Melanocytes are located in the top skin layer.
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Nutritional
deficiencies, both in animals and in humans, are known to alter
melanin pigmentation. Copper and zinc deficiencies have
been reported to induce hypopigmentation in various animals. Hypopigmentation
of the skin and hair results from copper deficiency in humans;
the depigmentation associated with chronic excessive molybdenum
intake is related to a decreased storage of copper in the liver.
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Learn more about what causes vitiligo.
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Pictures of vitiligo from some of the participants in our study.
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