omg lmbo. thanks ladies!! kennys eyes are kinda hazel brown?? his have flecks of color in them but more like green. I can guarantee you hes my husbands lol. And just to shake things up mine often change color which has scared quite a few people when Im talking to them and they change. I think this may have happened when I met bonnie at nationals but youll have to ask her. I get accused constantly of wearing colored contacts LOL
I was one of 7 children of two brown eyed parents. Only one sister and myself have blue eyes. I was also told years ago that brown plus brown cant equal blue.
so is this horses or humans? LOL
blue eye + blue eye = blue eye, if not a grandparent had brown eyes which can come through.
We bred rocket here and he had one blue eye. All but one foal has one blue eye. His most recent colt born this year half the eye is really light blue and the other half is dark blue.
okay you guys got me curious so i looked up a couple articles. Apparently the one you are quoting is based on older information before they found that there are 3 genes responsible for eye color
n humans three genes involved in eye color are known. They explain typical patterns of inheritance of brown, green, and blue eye colors. However, they don't explain everything. Grey eye color, Hazel eye color, and multiple shades of blue, brown, green, and grey are not explained. The molecular basis of these genes is not known. What proteins they produce and how these proteins produce eye color is not known. Eye color at birth is often blue, and later turns to a darker color. Why eye color can change over time is not known. An additional gene for green is also postulated, and there are reports of blue eyed parents producing brown eyed children (which the three known genes can't easily explain [mutations, modifier genes that supress brown, and additional brown genes are all potential explanations]).
The known Human Eye color genes are: EYCL1 (also called gey), the Green/blue eye color gene, located on chromosome 19 (though there is also evidence that another gene with similar activity exists but is not on chromosome 19). EYCL2 (also called bey1), the central brown eye color gene, possibly located on chromosome 15. EYCL3 (also called bey2), the Brown/blue eye color gene located on chromosome 15. A second gene for green has also been postulated. Other eye colors including grey and hazel are not yet explained. We do not yet know what these genes make, or how they produce eye colors. The two gene model (EYCL1 and EYCL3) used above explains only a portion of human eye color inheritance. Both additional eye color genes and modifier genes are almost certainly involved.
And this one
It is possible for two brown-eyed parents to have a child with a different eye color than theirs. For two brown-eyed parents to have a blue-eyed child, for example, the mother and father would need to pass on a pair of blue alleles each to their offspring. If this child were to get one green allele in this mix instead, s/he would have green eyes; however, if a brown allele is present, regardless of what the other three alleles are, the child would have brown eyes.
But wait, you say: this two gene model cannot explain the inheritance of gray or hazel colored eyes, nor can it explain how two blue-eyed parents can have brown-eyed progeny. It appears that as of yet to be determined modifier genes, other eye color genes, mutations, and/or possibly additional factors are involved in eye color inheritance.
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