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The colour of your kids eyes?

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fizzyapple1 · 10/10/2016 21:36

If your mum has very pale grey/blue eyes and your father has pale hazel eyes is it possible to have a dark brown eyed child?

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ScarletForYa · 10/10/2016 22:29

I have dark blue eyes with darker limbal rings and DP has cornflower blue eyes with no limbal rings. DD has ice blue eyes with lovely dark limbal rings.

Ineedmorelemonpledge · 10/10/2016 22:30

I have green eyes, my ex had very dark brown eyes and my DS has ice blue eyes.

bluecashmere · 10/10/2016 22:32

If Glitter's chart is correct something would not be quite right in my family. There's definitely blue + blue/green = brown, and certainly no funny business!

LoopiusMaximus · 10/10/2016 22:33

I have blue eyes and my partner has hazel (predominantly green) and both my children have dark brown eyes.

Kreeshsheesh · 10/10/2016 22:33

Erm my mum has blue, my dad has brown and I have green. According to that chart there's zero percent chance of their child having green eyes...

PointlessUsername · 10/10/2016 22:33

Going by the chart I am not biologically my parents child and my dc can't be biological to myself and dh?

Dh has blue eyes, I have brown 3 of 4 dc have green eyes and 4th has blue.

MrsHiddleston · 10/10/2016 22:35

My mum has dark hazel almost brown eyes, my dad a piercing blue. My eyes are green. My brother's eyes are grey/blue.

We are all definitely related because me and my brother are the spitting image of our dad. Genetics and eye colour is a bit weird sometimes.

QuiltedAloeVera · 10/10/2016 22:36

So far, up to 15 genes have an effect on eye colour. The 'brown eye is dominant, blue eye recessive' theory that I too was taught at school, is no longer supported by evidence. (and even if it was correct, that would mean I'm the milkman's daughter, but I am the living spit of my dad )

Have you any other reason to wonder about your parentage?

MumOfTwoMasterOfNone · 10/10/2016 22:37

DP actually did a paternity test for his DS due to his eye colour. He found out long after his ex left him that she had been cheating, then the conversation of his eye colour came up (dark brown with two blue eyed parents) and he doubted paternity.

Turns out although unlikely it is possible. I have hazel eyes, DP has blue. It's very difficult including hazel as it's a complete mix and I could find very little by way of predictors for our DC, but we've ended up with one of each

DomesticAnarchist · 10/10/2016 22:39

Woah there! Everyone calm down!

Please remember, your teachers should have made it clear that there's more to genetics than GCSE biology would have you know. The old punnet squares thing works for one allele, but in reality things like eye colour are controlled by many genes.

Is there anyone here with a genetics degree? I haven't got one (I only just passed the one module I did in the first year) but I know it's not as simple as some (and that misleading diagram) are suggesting!

Glitterkitten24 · 10/10/2016 22:40

Oh no! Sorry to panic you all, I just remembered seeing that chart on google images and thought it was interesting (and it works for the various combos in my immediate family)

I didn't mean to make people eye their fathers askance!

heatherwithapee · 10/10/2016 22:40

Mutations can exist on any genes. This includes eye colour. So, based on inheritance, blue eyed parents can't have a brown-eyed child. However, the gene can mutate to a brown-eye gene. So yes, it's possible.
Hazel / green eyes are more complex than blue/brown.

monniemae · 10/10/2016 22:42

I have brown eyes. My parents both have / had blue eyes. This caused some teen angst when my biology teacher insisted on teaching us some outdated genetics..
Dp also has brown(well, hazel Brown) eyes, and our two daughters each have blue eyes. People can't get their head round it at all.
Mind you, given my friend was asked if she was her child's nannyv recently, because of people's inability to conceive of children and parents having different colouring, I'm not surprised...

FuzzyOwl · 10/10/2016 22:43

I don't think Glitter's chart can be correct because I have really dark brown eyes, DH has very pale blue eyes and DD has bluey/green eyes (getting more green as she gets older). She is most definitely our child as well and too old for her eyes to change to be brown now!

BlackeyedSusan · 10/10/2016 22:43

brown and blue easy. hazel is the one that buggers up the system.

SpookyPotato · 10/10/2016 22:45

I think there are no rules.. I have seen people both with brown eyes have kids with crystal blue ones. When I look at friends and families kids there is a total random mix. I think these things can get passed down from distant ancestors!

Usernameinvalid16 · 10/10/2016 22:46

Dd has green eyes. Mine are brown and her dads are blue.

hoddtastic · 10/10/2016 22:49

I have blue blue eyes, my partner has brown eye, we have a grey eyed girl and a properly green eyed son. According to that chart it can't happen, well, it can. He's in bed asleep with his green eyes closed...

Myusernameismyusername · 10/10/2016 22:52

I am pretty certain my sister is not a child of an affair and that chart then makes her a weird exception.
Blue and brown parents - she's green. I'm hazel

RJnomore1 · 10/10/2016 22:52

My mother has pale blue eyes abd my dad true green eyes. I have dark brown eyes.

My husband has dark blue eyes. One child has hazel eyes abd the other one blue with a brown ring in the middle.

No denying paternity for any of us, other features are too identifying!

So yep genetics is very very complicated isn't it.

gildedcage · 10/10/2016 22:54

Scientifically I don't know why or how but both my sisters have blue eyes and neither of my parents did...all of my children have the same colour eyes as me. Not blue. And different again from both parents. I think there can be throw back genes, if you know what I mean

Flisspaps · 10/10/2016 23:00

My eyes are grey. DH has hazel eyes, DS has greeny-hazel and DD has bright blue.

gildedcage · 10/10/2016 23:02

Oh and as regards the chart my father's and grandmothers eye colour is not represented at all. Highly unusal. We all look alike and have a very strong family resemblance to each other. Absolutely no reason to doubt we arent all full siblings

MaryLennoxWasAnAspie · 10/10/2016 23:03

It's worth pointing out here that the Duchess of Cambridge (Kate Middleton as some will still insist on calling her) has hazel eyes, not blue. Which makes Prince George's brown eyes much more comprehensible.

Mine are dark hazel (mum hazel/green, dad blue, both brothers also brown/hazel).

TheRedCarWon · 10/10/2016 23:05

My eyes are blue. Dh has hazel eyes, as does ds. Dd has dark brown eyes, the colour of chocolate. She is definitely mine/my husband's child. So yes, based on nothing more than my own family, it is possible.

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