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From: artm@phred.UUCP (Curmudgeon)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Two different colored eyes
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Date: 9 Nov 88 15:50:52 GMT
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In article <17238@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> py8j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Patti Kelly) writes:
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>I'm trying to find out about people with eyes of different color. 
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>Mail might be best...Thanks a lot!

(True... but our mailer couldn't find a path, so:)

A friend of mine has one brown eye and one blue eye.  When he was born
they were the same color (brown, I think) and one of them changed in his
early teens.  No change since then, and he is now in his mid-thirties.

One thing of note is that he had osteogenisis imperfecta, a genetic disorder
that causes bones not to solidify in childhood.  One of the common 
characteristics that accompanies OI is that the sclera of the eyes have a blue
tint.

Another thing--I knew him well for over ten years before I first noticed
his different-colored eyes.  He says that it's something people generally don't
notice right away.  I imagine it's not something we're conditioned to watch for!

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