6. Risk Factors
Since albinism is inherited, a fetus has a one-in-four risk of developing the condition when both parents carry the recessive gene for it. If only one parent carries the recessive gene, their child will have albinism, but it will not manifest. That person, like their parent, will pass the gene onto their future child, and if their partner also carries the gene, their child will have albinism.
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