Editing Eye color (section)

==Changes in eye color==
A 1997 study of [[White American]]s found that eye color may be subject to change in infancy, and from adolescence to adulthood.<ref>{{cite journal|pmid=9152135|title=Eye Color Changes Past Early Childhood|year=1997|last1=Bito|first1=LZ|volume=115|issue=5|pages=659–63|journal=Archives of Ophthalmology|doi=10.1001/archopht.1997.01100150661017}}</ref> Seventeen percent of children experienced a change of eye color by adulthood. Of those children, 50% of developed lighter eyes as they got older. The other 50% developed darker eyes.{{sfn|Bito|1997|p=660}}  

Generally, children with hazel and light brown eyes tended to experience a lightening of their eye color by adulthood.{{sfn|Bito|1997|p=660}} Children with green eyes often experienced a darkening of their eye color.{{sfn|Bito|1997|p=660}}  It was also found that 11% of the children's [[mothers]] experienced an eye color change during the same period, with most developing lighter eyes, relative to their original color at the time of their child's birth.{{sfn|Bito|1997|p=661-662}}