Heterochromia: A Beautiful Eye Mutation
Heterochromia is the mutation in the color of the eye, hair, or skin. When it comes to the variation in the color of eye or iris it is referred to as Heterochromia iridis. Basically, it is the benign type of eye mutation and it remains throughout life without causing any pathogenicity in the eye. People who have heterochromia iridis looks very beautiful and attractive due to different eye color. In most cases, there are two colors observed in heterochromia iridis i.e. one eye color is blue and the other eye has a brown color. This mutation is rare in human i.e. almost two lac people in the United States have heterochromia iridis which is not related to any disease while it is most common in animal breeds like horses, cats and dogs. If this mutation is causing changes in other parts of the body like change in hair or skin color then it is associated with diseases or develops after the birth of the baby. How Heterochromia develops? Heterochromia develops due to the abnorm...