Hypopigmentation

Hypopigmentation is a disease characterized by insufficient pigmentation of the skin of the face and body. With hypopigmentation, the skin becomes lighter compared to healthy skin in normal people. The amount of pigment that determines skin color is determined genetically. Deviations within the normal range are considered a variant of the norm. However, normally the human epidermis covers 98% of the entire human body, and the stratum corneum, which consists of scales, strips off the protective barrier to the penetration of both microbes and substances harmful to the body. And this layer of cells contains melanin, a pigment whose color depends on the level of thyroid hormones, the MC1R gene, the dominant and recessive alleles of the IRF4 gene, which causes different color phenotypes in humans and animals. . Hypomelanosis is a congenital disease caused by the inferior immunity of the cells responsible for the synthesis of the pigment - melanin. Hypopigmentation