Interesting find. This is one of those things that seems to come up with some regularity that I have so far been unable to link to anything. Very odd indeed. Is it possible that it is a somewhat common phenomenon and it only seems disproportionate because we are spending a lot of time searching for identifiers among the children in question? Because at the ratio that it seems to present itself among the kids seems like it would be a reasonable single digit percentage, whereas I've heard the statistic described in a way that would make me believe the odds of a person having coloboma is definitely be lower than 1%. Wish I had some time to look in to it.
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8toborrm ago
Interesting find. This is one of those things that seems to come up with some regularity that I have so far been unable to link to anything. Very odd indeed. Is it possible that it is a somewhat common phenomenon and it only seems disproportionate because we are spending a lot of time searching for identifiers among the children in question? Because at the ratio that it seems to present itself among the kids seems like it would be a reasonable single digit percentage, whereas I've heard the statistic described in a way that would make me believe the odds of a person having coloboma is definitely be lower than 1%. Wish I had some time to look in to it.