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This is obviously just for fun, and completely non-scientific.
But, deisclaimers aside, ever wonder what your future kids would look like (hair colour, eye colour etc)? I always just assumed eye colour was a dominant allele thing but after a little reading found that it is linked to multiple chromosomes & evironmental influences which determine the colour.
If you like to waste time silly perdiction generators (all just for funsies) check out this eye colour predictor based on geneotypes & phenotypes.
Based on what I entered our future offspring have a 10% chance of gettng blue eyes, a 23% chance of green and a 66% chance of brown eyes.
Ohhhh, fun! I love things like this. I can't get my answers to submit but I'll try again later!
BWAHAHA.
Apparently we have a 50% chance of having a green-eyed baby.
And a 50% chance of having a blue-eyed baby.
Thumbs up in my books!
Ooooh - thanks! After I finally got mine to submit, looks like there's 75% chance of green eyes and 25% chance of blue eyes.
it was being pokey for me as well, I thought it was just my terrible ISP, I guess maybe their flash & or servers are overwhelmed. hmn.
It just told me that a green-eyed parent and a blue-eyed parent can't have a brown-eyed parent... but I'm living proof!!! 
it wont let me connect to the server, but i'm dying to know what it says! :)
@HopingToBeaMama: Wait? Who has what color here? If you mean you have the brown eyes and your parents have light, yes, it used to be thought that wasn't possible but it turns out Mendel(sp?) was a little off in his theories.
But I still don't understand how two recessive genes can create one that is dominant (brown). That's why I'm not a scientist I guess. lol
@HopingToBeaMama: Yeah, I'm proof that two blue-eyed parents can produce a green-eyed child!
...Well, technically, my mom's eyes are more gray than anything, but that's not an option here, and their server freaked out when I tried to say her eyes were blue. They don't have hazel as an option, either, but that's what FI's are. That's a very different thing than brown, so I don't know what to do.
@Julesb81: Ugh, me too!!!!!!!!!
GreenEyedMoonMine are hazel and my Mom's are, too - so frustrating that there isn't that option.
@PutABirdOnIt: They can't. Not usually, at least. Mutations happen, though, and so it's possible.
"But I still don't understand how two recessive genes can create one that is dominant (brown). That's why I'm not a scientist I guess. lol"
It's possible, but EXTREMELY unlikely. How it works is, there is one primary gene that usually determines eye color (blue or brown or green), along with several secondary/tertiary genes (which is how we get different shades of blue, brown, gray, hazel, etc).
So, two parents could have recessive primary genes (ie, blue or green eyes) yet have something in the secondary/tertiary genes that makes their offspring's eyes appear brown. From what I understand, it is unlikely (but not impossible) for someone with a recessive blue eyed primary gene to even have a brown eyed tertiary gene, and that if they do, it's also unlikely the tertiary gene will 'take over' the primary gene, so the odds are not in your favor of having two blue eyed parents with a brown eyed kid. But it's not impossible. Still, I would imagine any time a blue eyed couple gives birth to a brown eyed kid they will get the side eye.
The eye color thing has always confused me terribly. I have brown eyes, my sister has blue eyes, and my other sister has green eyes (full siblings and we look it, ie., no milkman babies).
@Tatum: Yes, you are right. It is rare. The reason I said I didn't understand it completely is because I was reading about the gene mutation that would make that possible and it just got too technical for me and my attention wandered. lol
But I had been researching to find out where blue eyes came from. And really, they're just...a pretty, freaky mutation. Also, I found out that all people with blue eyes are descended from the same ancestor. Which means, on some level, a million times removed, I'm related to my husband. Creepy, no? lol
I have no idea what color my father's eyes are/were, so that tool probably wouldn't work well for me. :P My mother and I both have blue eyes, though mine are a bit darker/more of a slate blue. MIL has blue eyes, and FIL's are dark brown. DH ended up with warm brown eyes (almost a dark amber color). I'm guessing if we had kids, they'd end up with brown eyes as well.
@Mrs Grape: Your husband probably has a recessive blue, so you could definitely end up with a blue-eyed baby.
HIs are green, mine are blue, so we have a 50/50 shot either way. But, we aren't having kids, so i guess we'll never know
Yeah, the technical side of genetics is kind of dry (and complicated!). The one I listed is way watered down, but that's the best way I understand it. I prefer the regular punnett square explanation, that says it's genetically impossible for two blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed kid, although we know that's not true.
I have brown eyes and my husband has hazel/brown, with a blue eyed dad and brown eyed mom. We have anywhere from a 0-25% chance of having a blue eyed kid, depending on which gene my dad gave me, according to punnett square logic. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
I cannot get it to work! Mine are hazel (green), my Moms are hazel (green), my Dad was Blue. My FI & his parents are all blue. The website is not working for me...
@RR: It won't work for me either. I'm just assuming we'll have blue eyed babies because there sure are a ton of them between the 2 families. Randomly, though, my husband has green eyes.
I can't get it to work either :( It's a shame bc I love this kind of stuff. Although I assume we'd most likely have blue eyed babies because my husband has blue eyes and I mostly do too. I have heterochromia... not sure how that affects things baby-wise? but my eyes are mostly blue so I assume I count as blue eyes.
@Tatum: I'm sure it will be interesting to see:) I have blue and my husband had green/hazel and we ended up with one of each. Pretty standard stuff.
Yeah, I couldn't get it to work either. Probably everyone trying is not going to help either.
With me being 100% asian (brown eyes) and my husband and his family having blue eyes, there is a pretty good chance that our kids will also have brown eyes. There is slim very very low chance that we will have a kid with blue eyes but I doubt it.
@yrret107: both of my husband's parents have brown eyes, and he has blue eyes. Also, both of my parents have blue eyes, but they each have 1 blue eyed and 1 brown eyed parent.
It won't work for me:( I read all of the explanations of how this works, but my brain still won't compute it, so can anyone offer their opinion on what our smaller Holler will come out with?
Me: Green (brother and sister, both green)
DH: Blue (brothers, both blue)
My Mom: Brown
My Dad: Blue
MIL: Blue/Green
FIL: Brown
I'm mainly wondering if we're leaning towards blue or green vs brown. We are both blonde, and I actually LOVE brown eyes with blonde hair (Jessica Simpson!). So I'm just kind of daydreaming. Although I won't care if his/her eyes are orange. So long as they have eyes!
ETA: It's funny how you maybe want your kids to have an eye color different than yours...I look at my green eyes every day and yawn. DH says they were green lightning bolts across the room when he first met me, couldn't stop staring at them. But I hope my kids get fun-er eyes, I guess bc I kind of got bored with green after 31 years:)
And I know fun-er isn't a word. It's actually one I use to drive DH crazy:)
Wow, both your and FI's family beat the odds! Statistically, with a brown eyed parent, at least 50% of the kids should come out brown eyed, yet none of them did. Since you and your DH both have light eyes, I am thinking your children will not have brown eyes. Whether they are blue or green is up in the air, but I'm guessing they are more likely to be blue.
@bree72: I was figuring blue for us, too. I don't think our baby will look anything like me in general - his family has some dominate genes!
@CorgiTales: Yeah, well, his parents probably have parents who had blue or green eyes. My side of the family has had brown eyes for many many generations. So I'm pretty sure my genes for brown eyes are both dominant. I mean, there have been cases of asian having blue eyes but it is very rare. If I could bet money on it, I would.
It would be cool to have a son or daughter with blue eyes but I highly doubt it.
Server is busy, must be because we are all trying to get answers :p Ill try again later
I got it to work one time, but it didn't list any percentages. It just showed all the eyes on the bottom as green.
@Tatum: Thanks for clarifying...I guess I've never thought about it too much, but I did kind of assume we'd end up with a green eyed or a blue eyed child. Brown would be fun though! DH is an identical twin, so *really* it's only twice that his parents beat the odds, but then, because DH and BIL always loved to cause trouble, they split that egg in half;)
@jholler25: I LOVE my green eyes, and so does FI. He's praying and praying and praying that our kids get my eyes because he thinks they're the most awesome things on the planet. I like mine, but I don't really care what color our kids get.
Ours was 50/50 green and blue eyed kids, thats cool for me, though in all truth we both have hazel eyes, mine are more green, and his are more blue, so who know really.
I'm AA and was born with blue eyes that changed to brown. My husband has brown eyes. I am pretty sure that our baby will come out with brown eyes.
I think we broke it :(
Mine keeps saying 'cannot connect to server'
While waiting for the eye color thing to work I've been playing with this: www.morphthing.com.
I always thought it was weird I got my colour eyes - blue edges, then yellow then green. But I'm half chinese, so that's fairly rare I think to get any other colour than brown.
@GreenEyedMoon: Oh I hope I didn't sound negative about green eyes! I like mine okay! And DH loves them, he actually says that if we have a girl he DOESN'T want her to have my eyes because it's too dangerous:) He doesn't know how he'll ever be able to sleep at night, lol. Oh and I'm also a contact lens sales rep, FreshLook contacts are one of my products, so maybe after looking at my Freshlook sales materials/posters I give to offices to hang everywhere my green eyes seem boring next to amber and aqua!!
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