
I am so lost on this - I guess anything is possible.
I have brown eyes and come from a family of all brown eyes, parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. My husband has blue eyes. I have 2 kids - one with brown eyes and one with green. Go figure. |
Despite what many of us were taught in school, the so-called science of eye color dominance is not exactly perfect. Parents are not the only factor. So look to grandparents, cousins, etc. if you're curious as to what your child's eyes might look like. Most people born in this country are so genetically mixed that it shouldn't be a shock if you have children of multiple eye colors and complexions.
And as pp mentioned, be thankful child can see and enjoy their lovely face and eyes. signed- light brown eyed parent of one blue eyed child and one dark brown eyed child of a green eyed DH. Lots of lovely shades in between in family. |
I looked up an eye color predictor online when I was pregnant. It gave me a 5% chance of blue, 5% chance of green/hazel, 90% brown...or something like that.
DH and I both have brown eyes, both his parents have brown eyes and only my dad has blue eyes. DD came out with green/hazel eyes. |
Can someone explain to me the hazel, or flecked eye, thing? I can't reconcile our home situation with that calculator in the link in a PP.
I have black-brown eyes, DH has the palest blue-green. as in, near absence of color, they're kind of freaky to see for the 1st time. DD has hazel - brown, grey, blue and dk green all mixed together. how did this happen, looks like a mixing bowl. |
To 21:10 - the high school version (2X2 matrix) is more simplistic than the truth. There are many genes involved in eyecolor, not just the one. So, the set of possible combinations is more extensive and more diverse. Yes, dominant "beats" recessive, but there's more to it than we learned in school. |
I did not think so based on my college genetics class. I tried to replicate this result in the eye color calculator, and I could not get that result. I'm not trying to stir up a problem here. But is it really possible? |
My friend in high school had one green eye and one brown eye. Apparantly when the eyes are a different color it is more common green-brown than blue-green or blue-brown.
Either way, I have heard that green is the rarest eye color. I was surprised because I always thought the rarest color was blue |
It's interesting, I always thought blue was the rarest too. My mom has blue eyes, my dad green. I have three sisters with very green eyes, a brother with hazel/green, and my eyes are a blueish-greenish-grey with flecks of gold. For what it's worth, dad's dad had blue eyes and his mom had brown. They had three children, first had blue eyes, second had brown and the youngest had green. My DH has brown eyes, DD has an olive green color and DS has clear brown. I really think that there are calculations you can make, but there are a few genes that have a way of presenting themselves, with you don't think they will. |
Both my parents have green eyes and I have blue. My child's father has brown. She ended up with one blue eye and one brown eye. |
Yes, it's really possible. The calculator itself mentions that it happens, though not in their model. Eye color is controlled by more than 2 genes and the model only considers two. |
I have brown eyes, husband almost black. Both my parents and MIL dark brown and FIL green. My grand dad had really intense blue eyes, a very particular blue (think Elizabeth Taylor). One of my kids has brown eyes, my exact shade and the other has the exact same blue eyes as his great grand daddy! Funny story, for health reasons (nothing serious thank God) we all had to have genetic testing so we know positively the kid is ours and not some crazy hospital mix-up ![]() |
The calculator posted originally definitely includes green as an option -- I have green eyes (green and brown eyed parents), my husband has blue (blue eyed parents), and it gives odds of 70% green, 30% blue. (One of our sons has green eyes, the other blue.) |
21:10 here.
Okay guys, nobody's saying we aren't grateful DC can see. We're just talking genetics here thats all. In my college bio class we, too, were only taught the 2x2 matrix. If the true matrix is more extensive I wish I'd been taught that! So bottom line is - two blue eyed parents can indeed yield a brown eyed child. I'd be interested in knowing what the true matrix of that looks like!! |
Stumbled upon this discussion and just thought I'd post this link: http://genetics.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_genetics_of_blue_eyes
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