About: Was Michael Jackson black or white   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Genetically speaking, Michael Jackson had the alleles that would have made his skin what we commonly call "black." However, he also developed a disease known as vitiligo. This caused the melanin production in his skin cells to stop and caused him to develop white patches. In severe cases of vitiligo, it may be preferable to depigment the rest of the skin rather than try to cover up the patches. Michael Jackson underwent this procedure, causing him to appear white. This is also the likely origin of his famous gloved hand.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Was Michael Jackson black or white
rdfs:comment
  • Genetically speaking, Michael Jackson had the alleles that would have made his skin what we commonly call "black." However, he also developed a disease known as vitiligo. This caused the melanin production in his skin cells to stop and caused him to develop white patches. In severe cases of vitiligo, it may be preferable to depigment the rest of the skin rather than try to cover up the patches. Michael Jackson underwent this procedure, causing him to appear white. This is also the likely origin of his famous gloved hand.
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • Genetically speaking, Michael Jackson had the alleles that would have made his skin what we commonly call "black." However, he also developed a disease known as vitiligo. This caused the melanin production in his skin cells to stop and caused him to develop white patches. In severe cases of vitiligo, it may be preferable to depigment the rest of the skin rather than try to cover up the patches. Michael Jackson underwent this procedure, causing him to appear white. This is also the likely origin of his famous gloved hand.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software