‘Why, Grandma, what big eyes you have!’ Though similar in appearance, the hidden cause of those big eyes Little Red Riding Hood notices in Grimms’ fairy tale has nothing to do with the hidden cause of enlarged eyeballs in buphthalmia, a genetic mechanism causing this devastating eye disease which has now been uncovered by researchers. Patients afflicted are severely myopic, or nearsighted.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151002103301.htm
Researchers identify cause of inherited form of extreme nearsightedness
2 octubre 2015
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