hypopigmentation of the skin
MONDO:0019290Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names hypopigmentation of the skin yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A condition caused by a deficiency or a loss of melanin pigmentation in the epidermis, also known as hypomelanosis. Hypopigmentation can be localized or generalized, and may result from genetic defects, trauma, inflammation, or infections.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0019290), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
1 feature
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, hp/releases/2026-09-01.
- Hypopigmentation of the skinMondoHP:0001010
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (10)
- albinism-hearing loss syndrome
- deaf blind hypopigmentation syndrome, Yemenite type
- deafness, congenital, with total albinism
- Ito hypomelanosis
- linear hypopigmentation and craniofacial asymmetry with acral, ocular and brain anomalies
- oculocutaneous albinism
- piebald trait-neurologic defects syndrome
- piebaldism
- syndromic oculocutaneous albinism
- Tietz syndrome
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: hypopigmentation of the skin
- Also called
- hypopigmentation of the skin (disease)