Albinism

Discuss albinism in general.

I'd like to start it off by discussing albinism in dogs. I'll just copy-paste a comment on albino dogs I noticed, and the response I was typing up.

Carnivale:
"It is a misconception that "true" albino eyes are pink. Albino eyes can, as Geist said, be anywhere from pink, to pale blue, to almost white. In albinistic dogs, pink eyes are even less common, for whatever reason."

Me:
"I'm forced to challenge that idea.

Albinism is the lack of pigmentation (or melanin) - therefore, the blood beneath the skin and behind the eyes are what gives the skin and eyes a pink color. No true albino has non-pink eyes; they simply don't. If they do, then they aren't a "true albino." If so, then they're just a "white" color - like horses, where a horse is considered grey if it has dark skin and white or grey fur, while a "true white" has pink skin and white fur - which is similar, but yes, different. Or perhaps leucistic...

Now, maybe there is such a thing as another genetic strain that is more dominant that albinism to cause an animals' eyes to be blue instead of pink, while still remain an albino. However, based off "albinos MUST have pink eyes," unless Alacrity decides to add the dominant mutations in, in no way do I find this to be a suitable excuse.

Now, yes, I am most familiar with researching "albino horses" - of which there is no such thing of, I might add, according to my research. However, from the short, small bit of research I've currently conducted... I have concluded that there is also no such thing as a "true albino" dog. Therefore, while it may be similar to an albino, or... even, admittedly, semi-albino as I've heard it put, there is no actual albino dog.

There truly MUST be an accepted term for a creature that exhibits solely pink skin, white fur, and pink eyes - NO other color. I've come across many definitions of albinism, some of which state that it CAN have the said three traits, others saying that it MUST have those traits. This is the issue with it - there is no one 100% accepted definition, it varies too much.

While I realize that not everything on the internet is true, here's one bit I found (NOT in Wiki, I'm proud of myself! xD):

-"True albino, which is a recessive gene on the C locus, is not thought to occur in dogs. Sometimes dogs do occur which are completely white with pink noses and blue eyes, but these are probably semi-albinos. Genetic testing has not shown them to have any mutations on the C locus though, so it's possible that their lack of pigment is actually caused by something other than albino.

"White" Dobermanns are not true albinos (they still have some pigment, it's just very diluted), but geneticists are unsure which gene causes both their phaeomelanin and eumelanin to lighten so much. All we know is that the white Dobermann gene is recessive, which makes it similar to true albino."-

Copypasta from here:
http://abnormality.purpleflowers.net/genetics/albino.htm

I've come to accept that the "true albino" term is used for an animal that exhibit all three traits. But, simply my opinion. I still feel my opinion to be correct, though... Reasonably so, I hope. xD *shrug*

Opinions, arguments, thoughts..?