[utahagen]

What this article doesn't mention is that sometimes mutations occur. A blue-eyed person may -- rare, but it does happen -- carry a gene for brown eyes that was supposed to be dominant but, because of a mutation, flipped and was trumped by the blue-eyed gene. In this case, a blue-eyed person would carry a gene for brown eyes that may show up when he has a child. Thus, a brown-eyed person may have blue-eyed parents if one (or both, theoretically) of the parents were supposed to have brown eyes.

[#1CTYankee]

"What this article doesn't mention is that sometimes mutations occur. A blue-eyed person may -- rare, but it does happen -- carry a gene for brown eyes that was supposed to be dominant but, because of a mutation, flipped and was trumped by the blue-eyed gene. In this case, a blue-eyed person would carry a gene for brown eyes that may show up when he has a child. Thus, a brown-eyed person may have blue-eyed parents if one (or both, theoretically) of the parents were supposed to have brown eyes.

My mother's eyes, hazel, Father's blue.

My wife's, green, my In-laws, green, blue.

Her two sister's, blue

My children, hazel, blue.

[mdmathis6]

I have a daughter who is brown eyed the rest are blue eyed...my middle brother is brown eyed my youngest is hazel and my nephews(mid brother) are both blue eyed....genetics doesn't always fit the expected patterns!

[Arthalion]

Not just mutations, but sometimes odd polygenic combinations. I have blue eyes and two blue eyed parents. My wife has deep brown eyes, a brown eyed mother, and a blue eyed father. Our three children? Brown, Dark Brown, Green. How odd is that? (and no, there is no question of paternity...green baby looks just like his daddy in every other respect). According to most eye color prediction charts, we had about a 1-in-10 possibility of ending up with a green eyed baby, and we hit those odds with our third child. We actually had about a 1-in-4 shot of having a blue eyed child, so we probably would have eventually had one if we'd kept at it, but we decided to call it quits at three.

[xroadie]

The Farkle family, perhaps?