Anyone else fine Eye colour genetics fascinating?

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Just randomly thinking about eye colours and the genetics behind them tonight. (I find genetics fascinating). What eye colour do you, your partner and children have? Anyone have rare occurrences ie: two brown eye parents having blue eyes child or 2 different coloured eyes etc.

I have blue eyes, DH has green eyes that occasionally look a bit orange/light brown depending on lighting. DD has Grey eyes - they look blueish most of the time, grey when she wears dark clothes or at night and greenish in photos. Out of all our eye colours I like DD’s the best as they look particularly striking when they are ‘grey’.

Dh - brown
Me- hazel
Dd1 - brown
Dd2- blue

Me - slate grey eyes with bit of green
DH - curious colour mix, like a dark, golden bronze
DD - bluey green
DD - deep, rich brown.

I’m one of the cases of having brown eyes while both my parents have blue. I remember asking my biology teacher about it after he’d just taught us it wasn’t possible, and after a snarky comment about the milkman, said I was a mutation!

Me: Green, DH: brown
DCs one of each. Both have my eye shape, and otherwise look very similar. I'd never get away with trying to disown them

My family is a mix of greens, greys and blues.

Mine change shade quite easily with the light (my hair does too as it has a mix of everything in there!) which is common with pale eye colours. They look strange if I've had a hard cry and the whites have gone quite pink, they look a striking sort of turquoise colour.

Eye makeup makes a big difference too. Purple makes the green contrast. Natural brown shades tones them down a lot.

My DH has two different coloured eyes.

Both my parents have blue eyes as does my sister. I have green eyes...

Interestingly they all also have dark hair where as I am naturally blonde.

And yes sometimes I wonder what colour hair and eyes the milkman had.

My parents both have blue eyes
My sister has grey eyes

I have weird eyes. They are green with grey rims but I have central heterochromia so I have a brown/gold ring around my pupil

My DH has blue eyes
My DS has grey eyes

Df - light grey (his mum and dad blue)
Dm - darkest brown/black
Me: v dark brown

Dxh - his mum blue /his dad dark brown.

Ds - v dark brown and people think he’s Se Asian (he’s not).

The brown eye dominates in our family.

I can’t imagine ds having no brown eyed children. But I know nothing about genetics.

My father has very very pale blue eyes my mother has black eyes. I have grey eyes. My daughters dad has striking blue eyes my daughter has green eyes. Funny how it works.

None of us have same colour eyes 🤔

My mum has 1 brown eye and 1 green. Father had brown, I have brown DH has blue DS blue, DD brown.

My birth mother - brown
Dad - blue
Me - blue (one pupil bigger than other)
DP - blue
DS1- blue
DS2 - blue

Lots of blue

I have 1 green eye and 1 hazel eye.

My husband and I have both got green eyes and both our girls have got dark brown eyes. Weird.

Can someone please explain this to me as dd biology teacher said it isnt possible. But it really is!

Me: green
DH: green
Dc1: brown
Dc2: blue
Dc3: hazel

Pleasenomorepeppapig So you have it too! Ha take that biology teacher!

I’m sure I read somewhere that there is a 0.1% chance 🤣 so pretty impossible. It’s always interested me. Both my girls are 5 years apart but pretty much clones of each other.

I have nearly the same eye colouring as you, polkadotpixie, but my heterochromic central ring is more orange/gold.
The external darker ring in some people's irises is called the limbal ring, and is considered to be very attractive in Japan. they sell contact lenses so that people can fake them!

There's a special term for eyes that change colour with the light that only Mumsnet know. My green grey brown eyes do this and it seems to be passed down on the female side of the family to all the left handlers !

Just been having a quick google and apparently my red haired, blue eyed left handed child is quite rare!

We must be really boring then. All blue eyed grandparents, all parents have blue eyes, we both have blue eyes and our son has blue eyes plus probably our second son will have blue eyes too. All different shades though.

I have blue and DP's are a lovely hazels greeny colour. DS is 7 months and his eyes are mix of both of ours. Sort of hazel/gold in the middle and blue round the edge. I'm guessing they'll change further before they stick at whatever colour they'll be though.

Me Hazel
DH Blue
Dc1 Green
Dc2 Blue/gold
Dc3 Hazel
Dc4 Green

Dm Blue
DF green
Dsister1 Green
Dsister2 Blue
Me Hazel