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To: decimon
I have green eyes. My husband has brown eyes. Two of our daughters have blue eyes.

Does that mean our daughters don't share our ancestry?

257 posted on 01/31/2008 4:33:22 PM PST by syriacus (HUCKIAVELLIAN : (adj.) hypocritical; slick; glib; charming and, yet, sneakily nasty.)
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To: syriacus

Not at all...

Your husband is a heterozygote with both a blue and brown eye gene....brown eye color is the dominant gene expression. At some point in his family tree he had a blue/green eyed relative.

People with green eyes have a blue eye gene too...the eye color gene is subject to variable penetrance which can lead to different ‘shades’ of color from dark brown to green etc.

Your two daughters eye color has nothing to do with their ‘ancestry’...
each of your children


258 posted on 01/31/2008 4:39:11 PM PST by Ethrane ("semper consolar")
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