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A 37-year-old member asked:

My husband has heterochromia iridis, will my son have it?

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Dr. Anatoly Belilovsky
Pediatrics 37 years experience
Not necessarily.: Some heterochromia is due to a "birthmark" that happens to be over the eye; some is genetic, possibly dominant.
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