Why Is Albinism More Common Among Dark People?

[Gohenk]

Apparently, Africa Is where albinism is the most common.
I have saw images of albinos among amerindians, australoids and South Asians.
Talking about australoids, people in Solomon Islands can have blond hair and still are quite dark.
This is weird and somewhat ironic.

[Regnera]

There're East Asians and white people have albinism too.

[sacha]

There're East Asians and white people have albinism too.

Albinism in Europeans is mostly because of OCA1 mutations, and in Africans usually OCA2. Many more isolated tribal groups have these genes in so much of their population that it is significantly more common than in the rest of the world

[Melkiirs]

Apparently, Africa Is where albinism is the most common.
I have saw images of albinos among amerindians, australoids and South Asians.
Talking about australoids, people in Solomon Islands can have blond hair and still are quite dark.
This is weird and somewhat ironic.

Back in the early 20th century before modern genetics albinism at least in Europe was associated with mixing between light and dark populations. Dr. E. Raseri presenting data from an attempted census of albinism in Italy organized by the Italian Anthropological and Ethnological Society tried to associate the frequency of intermediate pigmentation or "normal melaninism" (brown hair, eyes, and skin) with albinism frequency. Very dark or light pigmented communes were thought to less less mixed. I'm not sure if any of this holds up today.

This is the table from the Italian survey:

https://books.google.com/books?id=RG...raseri&f=false