People with aniridia often have metabolic disorders, including obesity, high blood sugar and diabetes. Some children develop a type of kidney cancer called Wilms tumor.

Potential cure for 'aniridia' or people with no iris in the eye. Written by Agencies | Updated : December 26, 2013 11:06 AM IST.

When I was seven years old, an ophthalmologist told me that I was born with aniridia. It is an eye disorder characterized by a complete or partial absence of the iris (colored part of the eye). This ...

University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health scientists have developed a potential cure for a rare eye disease, showing for the first time that a drug can repair a birth defect.

They formulated the drug Ataluren into eye drops, and found that it consistently restored normal vision in mice who had aniridia, a condition that severely limits the vision of about 5,000 people ...