My Sectoral Heterochromia Eyes: Royalty?

I made a new discovery about myself today.

I was watching that film preview for "The Unborn" and the doctor is telling the woman that she has two different colored eyes and this often means there was a twin that was lost.

I have two different colored eyes, sort of. One is green and the other one is green but has a distinct large brown spot. So I wondered if it's the same thing.

It's called heterochromia. So I looked it up online and it's called "sectoral heterochromia" if you have eyes like mine.

I never knew this about myself! Also, they think it has something to do, maybe, with things affecting pigment and sometimes people with heterochromia have a section of hair that is white. I don't have this exactly, but I have a section in the back of my head, in the back, of more ash blond hair. My mother says all of my hair was red until a section in the back was rubbed out or fell out, and it came in pale ash blond and not red.

Who knows though. Maybe I have a twin and someone took the baby and no one knows. ;) I don't think my mother had any ultrasounds, so how would we know for sure? lol.

Opthamologists have always been interested in my eyes. They make a big deal about them when they're under the light. I thought it was just flattery they give everyone, but maybe they were more interested in the sectoral heterochromia.

HEY EVERYONE! I'm even rarer than we all though (in every way it seems, I was destined to be, sorry Kaempf, but quite "special").

This is what wiki says, it says those with sectoral heterochromia are even RARER than those with FULL heterochromia where one eye is totally blue and one is totally green:

"Partial or sectoral heterochromia is much less common than complete heterochromia and is typically found in autosomally inherited disorders such as Hirschsprung's disease and Waardenburg syndrome."

It appears this very special species here may have a disease. WHO KNEW?!

Shit. I might even be a CHIMERA.

Okay, ummm...Going to the bathroom mirror now for a better look at my eyes and then I'll describe them exactly...one minute.

Okay, I have sort of a central heterochromia in that there are two rings of color. On the outside, seagreen blue. Closer to the iris, light moss-yellow green. And then on the right eye, there is a brown spot that I don't have on the other eye. I've always known I had the brown spot difference but I thought a lot of people had eyes like mine. Never thought it was unusual. Does anyone else know someone with this difference?

It's not "aquired heterochromia"--it's always been there.

Hey, and they're not "hazel". Look at this, because according to wiki:

Eyes displaying Central Heterochromia are often referred to as "cat eyes" because of the appearance of a multi-coloured iris. Central Heterochromia appears to be prevalent in irides containing low amounts of melanin.[22] Central Heterochromia does not label an eye as hazel. This is because the outer ring of an eye affected by Central Heterochromia is that iris' true colour.

So, I am still a little doubtful, but what sort of convinces me this is possible, is the fact that my hair color came in a different color too. Very, very light and not red at all underneath all my hair in the back. It's not as noticeable now as when I was younger, but people would point it out to me when I was younger, and could tell, when I pulled my hair up. It looked like very blond highlights.

My skin is the same color everywhere though. I guess heterochromia deals with pigment of eyes, hair, and skin. There can be either excess or lesser than usual pigment and the second is called "hyperchromic" (underpigmented). This would mean my eyes true color should be seagreen blue but the pigment didn't carry to the inner part of the iris, and my hair color should be, I guess, true red, but I have this blond patch.

Well, I looked up the diseases, and I don't have those. I guess it's just an anomoly, or maybe there was a twin, who knows.

Okay, well, this is a little weird. My parent's first baby died after 3 days from some "mysterious" disease that the hospital never autopsied, and now I find out I have sectoral and central heterochromia. What the hell was happening to my mother when she was pregnant? My brother's the only normal one? My mother didn't use drugs at all and was very up on nutrition.

I'm looking online and it says sectoral heterchromia is extremely, extremely rare.

Oh, huh. So now I'm reading it's a sign of royalty. I KNEW IT!

"BirthMark: Brown spot in Left blue eye? (Termed: Sectoral Heterochromia).
Replies: 2
BirthMark: Brown spot in Left blue eye? (Termed: Sectoral Heterochromia).
Kenneth_Drescher (View posts) Posted: 31 Mar 2008 12:37AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Alquist, Faugust
I'm seeking info on a BirthMark I have: a brown spot in my left blue eye, right eye is blue (Termed: Sectoral Heterochromia). I have straw-blond hair, and reddish-blond beard.

My Uncle: Oscar Faugust, son of: Alma Alquist + Gus Faugust of Jacksonville, IL, USA. They were of Swedish + Danish decent. Also had this same BirthMark.

My Great Aunt: Nell Faugust used to tell me as a child that it was a, "Mark of Swedish Royality!" My Mother scoffed at this.

Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to this trait as the Actress: Kate Boswell has the same BirthMark. There's now even contacts which can be worn to give the 'look' of sectoral heterochromia.

I did some research and apparently this trait was most common in the Royal Families of Russia, Denmark, and other European Courts.

*Seeking any further specific info, and knowledge of individuals whom also have this trait! It's apparently quite rare, and gene, which is recessive must come from both parents!"

Well now, my life story might have a bit of a twist now it seems. For centuries, my family was shuttled around the world, where we sought refuge in hiding, appointing members of the royal family to take posts as forest rangers, to conceal our identity.

Alas! We were discovered, sadly, after the progeny of the ancient royals was indiscreet about her heritage. She and her son were to be eliminated. KILL THEM! said the cowards. SHE IS THE HOLY GRAIL. No! She is the descendent of that Russian family they allegedly killed off in the revolution. No, wait! she is Danish or Swedish royalty and threatens our crown. No...she is next in line to the throne of England!

Well, it's time to examine my DNA folks. I'm either royalty or a chimera (dear God, Pullleeeesse, don't let me discover I'm a chimera. please let me be special and discover I've royalty on both sides of the family...ahem! and then grant me 3 wishes, the first being for full security for me and my son and the second being a restoration of my inheritance).

(of course I'm having fun!)

I wonder what I will discover next. am i really a woman?????

I just found a link with people commenting on their dual sectoral heterochromia in eyes and having a "blond streak". Many of them are being tested for chimerism or mosiacism. I wonder if anyone would pay me to experiment with my genes? No thanks to military experiments involving magnetic pulse, by the way. Been there, done that, and still waiting for the check, thank you.
http://perso.fraise.net/permalink/2008/02/6/

So I'm reading about chimerism. I guess there are a few famous people (aside from royalty) that have sectoral heterochromia, like Kate Bosworth (hers is more noticeable) and it can be simply genetic anomoly regarding pigment, but is sometimes found to be the first marker for being a chimera. I tell you what, if I find out I'm a chimera, and my parents always knew and never told me, I will be PISSED. I also won't care, one way or the other. I think it would be interesting. I probably absorbed a boy twin if I'm a chimera (who says women are the weaker sex?). Lol. It could be mosaicism too, which is far more common and involves just small chromosomal patch differences. If it's genetic, my son might have it. His hair is all the same, and his eyes are brown, but he has a white patch of skin instead of brown and that's his only birthmark, and it's a pigment birthmark.

SO interesting, eh?

Come to mama, and I will figure out what is ailin' ya. Can I be a non-certified medical investigator? Just want to skip labs and surgery and dead bodies.

I would probably be good at it. I sent in material for a patent, a few years ago, and they contacted me right away. They were patent attorneys and I had thought I had an idea for medical patent but then I went online and checked and someone had thought of it before me, a couple years earlier. I hypothesized that if Botox freezes muscles in the forehead, and some people with migraine respond to "trigger point injections" that freeze muscles in the back of the head, botox might work to alleviate symptoms of migraine, injected into particular parts of the head, for up to 6 months...

So it was a good idea, and I came up with it all on my own, but it was TAKEN! LOL. Maybe I'll come up with another idea. Just need time to think and some puzzles.

Anyway, I wouldn't be embarrassed to be a chimera, which, if you absorbed a male twin, means you could have some male genetic characteristics. I would be totally fine with that. I'm definitely not confused about my sexual orientation at all. I like men and am attracted to men, period. I feel like a woman with the brain of a woman-man. I'm very much a woman, but I can also think like a man when required. I think anyone who is a chimera should be proud because you really ARE special! Not only that, you can help science and medicine as well, because some studies are particular beneficial when done on chimeras or mosaics.

Note to family who reads this blog: if you know something I don't, it's time to tell me. Cough, cough.

There is also information that radiation while a fetus is in utero, can produce heterochromia in the baby. On Intra-uterine irradiation and iris heterochromia:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119905317/abstract

There is no family history of heterochromia in my family except for in me and my son. My mother had her first baby, which died 3 days later, in Wenatchee, and was living in Wenatchee, and had me, at the Wenatchee hospital. Then my parents moved while I was only 1 year old and my mother got pregnant a year later and had my brother, who has no abnormalities or heterochromia. I was living in Wenatchee when I became pregnant and had my son at the Wenatchee hospital and he may have a form of heterochromia, because of the white patch of skin on his body. Other than that, his only birth abnormality (besides head hematoma and possible internal head bleeding, and jaundice for 3 months) was his enamel dysplasia, where the enamel formation on his teeth was disrupted. Did my family have any enemies? I am sort of wondering about my family's history. And I hope no one confused my father with another guy that had his exact same name, even down to the "Jr." part. Because there were two of them and my mom found out when we were little and lived in Moses Lake because we got mail for him and it wasn't my Dad.

Hmm. On another note, I was wondering, because I am reading some people have changes in eye color as they age, and in hair...I've noticed my blond streak isn't very noticeable now and my brown spot isn't as pronounced either. It's still there, but faded or something. So what does that mean? One doctor wrote it may have something to do with hormones. Makes sense. Don't know everything. Very interesting about my son though. Either he and I both have a very rare genetic trait or we were both exposed to something, while in the womb, that affected chromosomes.

There's one way to find out! Well, wait, maybe I'm wrong. I was thinking we could just, or I could just be tested for some gene type that would explain everything. But if heterochromia, if it's developed in the womb and isn't genetic initially, will genes or chromosomes be affected by other influences? How do you know if your genes show expression of a trait because of something natural, or because of something that wasn't good and caused chromosomes to alter? Which one is first? Even with chimerism, is it always caused by some genetic deal, or can something that is environmental cause what it takes for the chimera...well absorbing a twin would be natural, but if you're going back to the egg and kind of division, is it possible something in the environment contributes to the way an egg develops and chromosomes are divided? So many questions.

Wow. Just found out I would have been killed by the Nazi's, over my eyes:
http://capacioushold-all.blogspot.com/2008/03/heterochromia-iridis.html
"Heterochromia has even inspired "eye-catching palettes." Then again, the Nazis and Mengele conducted experiments and exterminated people, including children, with Heterochromia."

I wish I could read some of these medical journals. I want to read this one from NIH, about a condition of deaf-mutism, heterochromia, and epilepsy (all in one disorder I guess):

1: Rev Otoneuroophtalmol. 1959;31:481-3.Links
[A second case of deaf-mutism with heterochromia iridis and epilepsy.]
[Article in French]

POROT M, FILIU.

And this one:
Heterogeneity in Waardenburg syndrome.
[A second case of deaf-mutism with heterochromia iridis and epilepsy.]. Rev Otoneuroophtalmol. 1959;31:481–483. [PubMed]; BORBOLLA VACHER L, ...
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1685402

From what I've read so far, the lighter pigmentation anomolies in myself and my son, if this is inherited and congenital and not the result of some environmental factor, could be explained by the following (and possibly more) diagnosis's:

1. simple hetrochromia,
2. congenital Horner's syndrome (probably not this one),
3. Waardenburgs syndrome ,
4. Parry-Romberg syndrome

Some of these disorders are also associated with epilepsy and other things, but I'm going to do more reading before coming to any conclusions. My guess would be that this, if congenital, could be a form of Waardenburg's or simple heterochromia (which is pigment changes with no other known factors). Then again, maybe I'm a chimera...who knows, with those high testosterone levels. lol. But my absorption of a twin wouldn't explain why my son also has pigment anomolies.

Okay, don't think it's Parry's, because that one seems more extreme with facial wasting characteristics. I don't think it's Horner's either because many of the characteristics are constant. For example, drooping eyelids--I get this, but only with migraine on one eye. Waardenburg's is sort of iffy but still a slight possibility because you don't have to have all of the traits. Deaf-mutism is common, but you could have the other signs and not this one. So sort of still interested in this one. Of course it could be simple heterochromia because that is just pigment anomolies I think, and I considered the possibility of a rare form of albinism--"HPS" but this is probably not it, so I'm stuck with thinking of the following:

1. Waardenburg's (possibly prediposed to seizure with this one),
2. simple heterochromia,
3. HPS albinism,
4. irradiation or other environmental causes of chromosome anomolies in utero,
5. mosaism or chimerism (still wouldn't explain why my son has a form of pigment anomoly, unless chimerism is absorption of a twin and mosaism is more congenital or hereditary. I don't know, are there any cases of hereditary chimerism? seems unlikely but will find out.)

My son has a white patch of skin like the girl in this article has, on her arm. She has Waardenburg's. Usually deaf-mutism is present, but it is not necessary. It is also possible to have other neurological problems without deafness with this disorder. See link: http://dermatology.cdlib.org/123/case_presentations/waardenburg/karaman.html. Also, it appears, the hearing difficulties cannot be determined by regular hearing tests, but only by checking brainstem responses. From this article:

"The hearing of the child could not be examined with pure tone audiometry. Bilateral hearing loss was noted on auditory brainstem response. However, there were no signs or symptoms of Hirschsprung aganglionosis. No chromosomal abnormality was found."

My son's white patch is found on his torso, a common site for these patches to appear, according to this article. As for me, I only have two of the criteria and two criteria are required for a diagnosis. I have the hypopigmentation of eye, and then the hypopigmentation of hair. For my son, he has the white patch, which he had from birth, and his hearing has never been checked in the proper way to rule out this kind of disorder.

It still doesn't make sense to me that my son could speak so well and then it goes to gibberish. Unless there are other neural features. From what I read, seizures are associated with this disorder.

I still know we were affected by a magnetic pulse, but I am interested in finding out what the cause of my and my son's pigmentation signs are about.

Waardenburg's is an inherited disorder and needs only one parent to carry it to the next generation, with a 50/50 chance of passing it on.

I looked up "congenital leukoderma" which is just a partial albinism of the skin alone, but I think it's odd that I have the eye heterochromia and patch of hair and my son has the white patch. It could be just a sign of partial albinism, but there are other things to rule out as well. Now, I've read that if it's congenital, before birth, it is considered to be "partial albinism", not leukoderma. Still, there are some disorders which include partial albinism in the diagnostics, and actually, while my patch of hair that was lighter could be a trait of albinism, what of the sectoral heterochromia? Having a brown spot in one eye is not hypopigmentation. I have central heterochromia, which is a lighter ring closer to the pupil, but then I have a brown spot that is darker, in one eye and that doesn't seem to fit albinism. I don't know if this is it, because what I'm reading about partial albinism, is that it's extremely rare to pass on to a family member. Not only that, but both parents have to have the gene for it. I just don't think that's likely and there was no history of this in my son's father's family. I don't think this can be explained by simple partial albinism.

This is crazy. I stumbled across all of this just by seeing a t.v. film preview and recognizing things in myself and my son. And I've been listening to The Backstreet Boys all night. Hhaaaaahhahhahaaaa!

I'm finding many, many, articles about the link between radiation (I'm including electromagnetic fields) and hypopigmentation, enamel dysplasia, and heterochromia in hair and eyes. There is a definite link between exposure in utero and these anomolies. It cannot be disputed. I have believed, as have pediatric dentists, that enamel dysplasia of my son was caused by traumatic birth, but it can also be caused, apparently, by radiation. The only thing, is to rule out differentials. For one thing, what is in Wenatchee that would cause this in both me and my son and possibly affected my parent's first baby, which died 3 days after birth? Secondly, what other inherited conditions would produce such rarities, on the basis of chromosomes alone? My sectoral heterochromia is extremely, extremely rare in normal cases of chromosomal inherited things. Like the articles all say, it's even rarer than having one full blue eye and then one green eye, or brown eye. So, while this is seen in those exposed to radiation and electromagnetic fields in utero, what else might cause this, on a genetic basis? I would also like to rule out the influence of pesticides, but I think this is very unlikely because I stayed in a pesticide free apartment and didn't go out to the orchard while pregnant. Not even once. I don't think sectoral heterochromia is from this either, or more people in Wenatchee would have it.

It has to be something with genetics or unique environmental exposures.

From I'm reading now, it's looking like it is also possible for a fetus and unborn baby, that is exposed to electromagnetic or other fields, to die within days of birth from respiratory and other problems.

I am using a very wide lens right now, and then I will narrow it down of course, but I'm thinking I need to be broad-minded, just in case.

This is how I'm wrapping it up tonight (my roommate needs the computer). With this, from wiki:

In anatomy, heterochromia refers to a difference in coloration, usually of the iris but also of hair or skin. Heterochromia is a result of the relative excess or lack of melanin (a pigment). It may be inherited, due to genetic mosaicism, or due to disease or injury.[1]

In my mind, it's one thing or the other. My son and I are both affected, so either we both have mosaicism, possibly have a form of Waardenburg's, or we were both affected by environmental sources that cause injury in utero.

Next day: So it sounds out there to imagine I and my mother were affected by electromagnetic fields during pregnancy, but this was the line of thought--first I found radiation can cause heterochromia when there's in utero exposure. Then I thought about Wenatchee's proximity to various sources of electricity because that area is a major supplier of electrical energy. It is also possible to be under an electromagnetic field and never feel a thing but have minor damages. Usually, you wouldn't feel anything at lower levels. So it's possible that when I was in Wenatchee, I was exposed to lower levels but didn't know. If someone cranked it up somehow, it would cause benign fasciculations and heart arrythmias. If someone cranked it up anymore, it would cause problems with electrical toys if they are targeted, and cause severe pain, and would trigger seizures. It's even possible that short bursts intermittant would do this and yet the source of all the problems could still be the same thing and trigger different symptoms at different levels. It's also possible my family had enemies, and my father was something of a whistleblower himself, but I think it's more likely that this matter is congenital. That's what I'm thinking. If it is, it should show up in DNA and chromosomal testing for mosaisism or could possibly be a sign of Waardenburg's, but that might be less likely. I would rule out congenital conditions before looking into environmental causes, but I would not completely rule out environmental causes until or unless congenital conditions are completely ruled out.

The other thing to think about is that an electrical source, or radiation...the reason why this can CAUSE mosaisicism in utero is because it disturbs and disrupts chromosomes and when this happens, you get anomolies. Mosaicism is caused by disruption with the chromosomes, and this can happen on its own or it can be caused by radiation. In fact, irradiation is used to purposefully separate chromosomes, by scientists wishing to isolate or break certain chains, for studying mosaicism. See wiki on mosaicism for info on this.

Well, that's as far as I can make guesses. Nothing further can be known without testing for things. So my research on this ends here until further notice or I find out someone wants to do experimental work with my genes or test me.

I'll include any information I find about royalty, which is most fun, and if I find anything out about myself, whether I'm a mosaic or whatever, I'll post that too.

Just found an example of royalty and sectoral heterochromia through an Italian ancestry: Grace Talarico di Capace (Baronessa Grazia Talarico di Capace) was born on July 2, 1946. She, along with her family, were involved with Emilio Pucci Haute couture in Rome, serving as fashion designers, fabricators and consultants for Pucci's Roman atelier throughout the 1960's. She is an American of Italian birth from the ancestral family of Alaric I.[1]

Hahaha! Here's a funny post, from wiki answers. This girl asks the question of whether there is any known prejudice against those with heterochromia and the answers are hilarious. I guess I should make an answer though, and let her know there IS one known prejudice--Nazi's would've killed ya. So I would've gone to Nazi death camp on account of my eyes. Here's the link to the question though and the funny responses: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081209131901AAXFxZa

I found a link with some photos of sectoral heterochromia. There are other links within the link. I will definitely upload a photo of my eyes. My eyes are more subtle, like the first one featured in this link, except instead of the golden streak, I have a sort of dark-rust brown streak. It's really faded though and used to be more pronounced--I read this can happen with changes in hormones. At any rate, I'll load a photo of my eyes. I don't know when my roommate is getting his camera attachment so I'll find some neighbor or hispanic friend around and see if they'll help me out. Anyway, here is the link. Down towards the bottom there's a very distinct example of sectoral heterochromia. Oh, if it seems my blond streak in the back of my head will still show, I'll take a photo of that too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/icopythat/311760915/