Photos: Aniridia Foundation
Above, a normal eye. Below, the eye of a child born with aniridia, a congenital eye disorder. People born with the disease have no iris and are generally legally blind.
An international conference gets underway at UVA tomorrow (Wednesday). It will draw fewer than 200 people to talk about a very rare disease, but what happens there could prove important to millions of patients as Sandy Hausman reports.
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