Baby Eye Colour?

[Invictas]

If both parents have blue eyes,can their baby have brown eyes?

[ummmm]

I thought that ljdksa.

[Prudie]

I've never seen anyone with what I call 'green' eyes - certainly not green like the coloured contacts you can get anyway.

[erin-x]

If brown eyes are in one or both sides of the family its possible.. i think brown eyes are a dominant gene? Don't quote me on it though.. lol

[fruitsalad]

both my parents had green eyes, and its says theres only a 1% chance of having a baby with brown eyes, and mine are brown.

[ljdksa]

Brown eyes are dominant, which means if the child inherits a blue and a brown, their eyes will be brown. If both parents have blue eyes, there is no-one to inherit brown eyes from.

[ljdksa]

This was how Hitler was trying to create the Masterrace. Because if you "breed" people with blonde hair and blue eyes, you will always get children with blonde hair and blue eyes. Odd mutations are possible for various reasons though- but usually a genetic mistake.

[Prudie]

I believe genetics is very complicated. Surely if it was as simple as brown is dominant we'd all be brown-eyed by now.

[ummmm]

My partner has weird coloured eyes. Darkish blue with brown specks...

[ummmm]

Well no...

[ljdksa]

Prudie, Most people in the world are brown-eyed. But two blue-eyed parents will "lose" the brown gene for all their descendants, so, not everyone will have brown eyes.

[China Doll]

It's possible if you and the partner both carry the gene for brown eyes. I have completely different colour eyes from my mother and father, respectively blue and brown, mine are grey (and not the nice silver grey colour either!) I'm pretty sure I'm not adopted.

[ummmm]

Yes....but ljdksa point is you would have blue eyes if they were both blue eyed. I don't think it dictates the shade though.

[Prudie]

But haven't others already confirmed in the thread that 2 blue-eyed parents can have a brown-eyed child?

[ljdksa]

Thanks Ummm. That's exactly what I meant. I think (not 100% sure) that blue eyes actually come from a lack of pigment, rather than a blue pigment and that the shade of blue/grey/silver/green/hazel etc depends on the way light is reflected off the eye. (eye shape, etc)

[China Doll]

There's a chart you can do. Brown is dominant over blue... so if you have blue eyes and both your parents did but your partner has blue eyes and carries the brown gene because one of his parents have brown eyes then you have a 1/4 chance of having a child with brown eyes (based on having 4 children)... Well according to my very limited knowledge, exceptionally crap memory of GCSE science and the scribbles I just did on this post-it note!

I'm prepared to stand corrected despite my ultra scientific approach which clearly has no flaws in its logic naturally.... ;0)

[ljdksa]

If your partner carried the brown gene, he would have brown eyes

[China Doll]

I don't think so. I carry the brown gene but it's not dominant which once again according to my terribly scientific approach is entirely possible... Although I've not tried to add grey in to the equation for my own family, it's a very small post-it! ;0)

[cazzz1975]

my mom has green eyes with little black spots, my dad has blue/green eyes, my sister has bright blue eyes, my brother has green eyes and I have green eyes

[erin-x]

That table thing is what i was thinking of when i wrote my reply china doll.. i can vaguely remember it from higher bio lol

[China Doll]

Equally, my father has brown eyes, my youngest sister has blue like mums and middle sister has brown. There are absolutely no doubts over paternity alas...