Blue eyes rare?

Tory · **Joined:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:58 pm **Posts:** 5828

What a stupid study! lol!
On my dh's side.. there are 3 siblings. Each have different colored eyes. One has green, one brown (that was my dh), and one blue.. blue blue!
of the Blue eyed one, ALL four of her dc have blue eyes as does her dh.
The green eyed one, he married a blue eyed girl and have 2 blue eyed dc.
My dh and I have 2 hazel eyed (twins) and one brown eyed.

My niece married a blue eyed man.. they have a beautiful blue eyed 8 month old! (and a brown eyed almost 3 y/o)

As for non-Hispanic... that's just crazy. I have several blonde, blue-eyed cousins in FL who are half-Hispanic.

LindaS · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:57 pm

This reminds me of the movie "Boys from Brazil". Great movie if you have not seen it.

Martha R. · **Joined:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:45 am **Posts:** 2924

I've done my part, too. Green-eyed dh + my blue eyes have yielded 1 green, 1 changeable blue/green, and two blue. :0) And my hair WAS auburn red. Now it's gray, blond, red, and brown due to sun exposure. LOL. I'm one of those crazy people, Briva!

Briva · **Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:17 am

I didnt say 'crazy' just from outer space. We have redheads on my dad's side (Irish kin). One of his sister's was known as "The Red" in Spanish. So there is a smattering of cousins with redhair and they are boisterous.

StacyinTN · **Joined:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:01 pm **Posts:** 2491

Sis wrote:

Already in the United States, another recessive trait, blue eyes, has grown far less common. A 2002 study by the epidemiologists Mark Grant and Diane Lauderdale found that only 1 in 6 non-Hispanic white Americans has blue eyes, down from more than half of the U.S. white population being blue-eyed just 100 years ago.

A team of scientists has tracked down a genetic mutation that leads to blue eyes. The mutation occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. Before then, there were no blue eyes. "Originally, we all had brown eyes," said Hans Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the ..."The question really is, 'Why did we go from having nobody on Earth with blue eyes 10,000 years ago to having 20 or 40 percent of Europeans having blue eyes now?" Hawks said. "This gene does something good for people. It makes them have more kids."

:lol:

My parents, my siblings...two sisters and a brother, me, my nephew (by birth) (my other niece and nephew were adopted) my two kids, and my parents' parents and siblings all have blue eyes. Interesting, though, my dh has brown eyes, but our kids took after my side of the family ...

His sister and dad also have brown but his mom (my mil) has blue. Blue wins in our family!

Sis · **Joined:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:22 pm **Posts:** 8837

And just *maybe* there are less people identifying themselves the same as before. When you're part something and part something else you have a choice how to declare it. These studies that require genetic questioning probably don't do DNA testing on their subjects to determine ancestry. We have two part-hispanics in the family that have gorgeous blue eyes... and two with green-ish. The greens are almost blue so I'm not sure how that falls into the study.

Kysa · **Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:06 am

Genetically--there are only blue eyes and brown eyes. The two major genes for eye color. Once that is determined, there are additional small color variations, like yellow flecks in the eye. The yellow flecks will make blue eyes appear green, or brown eyes, hazel.
But for the basic color the choices are:
BB or Bb which results in Brown
or
bb which results in blue
Not sure how these guys determined that b was a mutation of B.
Basically, your iris produced melanin or or no melanin. Those are the only choices, and I am quite certain God made it that way!

LisaTX · **Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:51 pm

Kysa wrote:

Genetically--there are only blue eyes and brown eyes. The two major genes for eye color. Once that is determined, there are additional small color variations, like yellow flecks in the eye. The yellow flecks will make blue eyes appear green, or brown eyes, hazel.
But for the basic color the choices are:
BB or Bb which results in Brown
or
bb which results in blue
Not sure how these guys determined that b was a mutation of B.
Basically, your iris produced melanin or or no melanin. Those are the only choices, and I am quite certain God made it that way!

That actually makes sense. Much more sense than the pointless ramblings of these "scientists" that have nothing better to do.

scottbiddle · **Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:26 pm

LindaS wrote:

This reminds me of the movie "Boys from Brazil". Great movie if you have not seen it.

Actually the rarity of green eyes comment reminded me of the movie Big Trouble in Little China. A classic! (if you haven't seen it, it is classic Kurt Russell Action-Comedy at its finest (and cleaner than much of the 80s action-comedy though admittedly not 100% "clean")

"You know what ole Jack Burton says at a time like this..."
"Who?"
"Jack Burton. Me!!!"

scottbiddle · **Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:27 pm

Kysa wrote:

Genetically--there are only blue eyes and brown eyes. The two major genes for eye color. Once that is determined, there are additional small color variations, like yellow flecks in the eye. The yellow flecks will make blue eyes appear green, or brown eyes, hazel.
But for the basic color the choices are:
BB or Bb which results in Brown
or
bb which results in blue
Not sure how these guys determined that b was a mutation of B.
Basically, your iris produced melanin or or no melanin. Those are the only choices, and I am quite certain God made it that way!

And which genotype produces the dichromatic phenotype?

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