Do I have Central Heterochromia?

How is Heterochromia inherited?

• How is Heterochromia genetically passed on? if a parent has Heterochromia does that mean that their child will have it? Or is a child has Heterochromia does that mean the parent has it? , Or can a generation be skipped?All I understand from Wikipedia is that it is genetic.

• Answer:

  It can be genetic, or it can be the result of a disease, and finally it can be an anomaly (mosaicism). Nothing is certainly passed down unless it is from both parents, and even in that case, their child may also only be a carrier and not have it. I studied biology in high school, and from what I remember about it, when someone has a recessive trait and only one parent has it, there is a 1 in four chance of that trait getting inherited, whereas they also have a 50% chance of being a carrier. But if it's a dominant trait, and only one parent has it, the trait will have a 50% chance of being passed on. Wow, I'm reading further into that wikipage about heterochromia, and that is pretty complex. I don't think it's quite as simple as having the dominant trait of brown vs the recessive trait of blue, and there are so many variants of this that it's kind of hard to keep track of the ways it manifests. I am interested in heterochromia and am just as fascinated by Calico cats. Thanks for getting me to research this a bit for you.