Scientist: All Blue-Eyed People Are Related

Fox News ^ | Thursday, January 31, 2008

[TBP]

Boy, do I have a lot of relatives.

[Terpfen]

My eyes were blue as a child, but are now green.

Uh-oh.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I’m the only person in my family with blue eyes, and I have seven uncles, five aunts, and almost thirty cousins. I’m also the only redhead. Was I adopted?

[KTM rider]

Oh great...so I am a mutant !

[GOP Poet]

lol. Me too . . . cousin :-).

[Allegra]

We’d have to rent out an awfully big place for that family reunion.

[battlegearboat]

Mom had brown eyes. Dad and all six of us kids had blue eyes.

Dad said he wore the blue genes in our family.

[Jeff Chandler]

>>I’m the only person in my family with blue eyes, and I have seven uncles, five aunts, and almost thirty cousins. I’m also the only redhead. Was I adopted?<<

What did the mailman look like?

[melsec]

“Scientist: All Blue-Eyed People Are Related “ - to what?

[dracovsu]

My last girlfriend had eyes like mine..... blue. I need to go throw up now.

[Welsh Rabbit]

What did the mailman look like?

Like a portly black woman. Seriously though, I know I'm my father's son because we both share an almost identical face (except for the eye color).

[Jeff Chandler]

Are you Joe Dirt?

[Paul Heinzman]

All Blue-Eyed People Are Related

Worst pickup line ever.

[alwaysconservative]

Aaack! Does this mean I’m married to a, to a, to a RELATIVE? It sounds awfully incestuous. (LOL!)

[shekkian]

So if I marry a blue-eyed woman, I might be a redneck?

[ears_to_hear]

I too have hazel/green eyes.. I must be the ugly step cousin

[muawiyah]

You get green eyes when you have the gene for red pigment, not dark brown pigment (and there are only two pigment genes anyway).

This has to do with where the pigment is deposited as well ~ is it on the outside of the Iris, or the inside, or on both sides ~ and a couple of other considerations discovered in the recent past.

I recently had cataract surgery and when the lenses were removed they also sucked out the pigment near my iris. The result was blue eyes! The correct color is slowly flowing back ~ orange lines!

[SuzanneWeeks]

Okay, then, they need to explain my son’s eyes to me! My husband and I both have BROWN eyes and Dark Brown hair, and my son’s are the most brilliant blue I have ever seen and he has a mess of blonde hair!

LOL, just kidding...I know that DH and I both have the Bb eye gene (BB = Brown, Bb = Brown, bb = blue) SO - Bb x Bb will equal 1 out of 4 times a offspring with bb, blue eyed baby. SOOOO glad I paid attention during the genetics portion of Bio 101!

Still get people asking me if my darling Cooper is adopted though. Stupid People.

This now concludes today’s Eye Gene Lesson, you may now go back to your regularly scheduled postings....

[SunkenCiv]

alas:

Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor
University of Copenhagen | January 30, 2008 | Unknown
Posted on 01/30/2008 5:10:37 PM EST by decimon
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