Gray eyes?

Question

My twins just turned a year old. My little boy has blue eyes and my daughter has gray eyes with thin gray streaks. I have brown eyes and my husband has blue eyes. Blue eyes are dominant in both his family and mine with two instances of hazel colored eyes and two instances of green eyes. What is the possibility that her eyes will stay gray?

My husbands mother, grandmother, aunts, cousins all have blue eyes. His father has brown eyes, and his great-grandmother has hazel eyes.

My mother has green eyes, her mother has hazel. My father has blue eyes as do five of his brothers. Two have brown eyes. His father and grandparents also had blue eyes.
This is why I said that blue was dominant.

Yes, I did mean predominant.

Answer 1

My neice is only a couple years old. She has grey eyes also. Your little girls eyes will probably stay grey but with a tint of blue or something to that extent. There is also a possibility that her eyes will turn blue from all of your families genetics but I would say she will have beautiful grey eyes since they have stayed liked that for a year.

Answer 2

It's possible she may end up with blue eyes. I think what you meant to say instead of " dominant" ( referring to the gene's ability to obliterate other traits) you mean "predominant" (meaning a large amount of, a majority of) In that case, yes, coming from a family with predominantly blue eyes will very much increase your daughter's chances of having blue eyes in the long run. The most noticeable changes in a baby's eye color occurs in the first six months of life. HOWEVER, eye color can change anytime in the first five years, but much more subtly. Hope this helped! :)

Answer 3

They could stay or turn green. My son has green eyes which sometimes turn blue (depends on what he is wearing). He was born with blue eyes...I have hazel eyes and his father has dark brown eyes. Dad is African American and I am Caucasian! My parents have brown eyes and so do his. My grandmother on my mom's side had blue eyes and my grandpa on my dad's side had blue too! Ya never know......things don't always happen like everyone thinks they are "supposed" to!

Answer 4

its very little...actually you can count it using a method which i learnt in biology..but then you need information of your dominant and minor gene of eye colour...for example you have brown eyes right, and so your dominant is brown, but your minor might be something like green, or blue or grey...and that have effects too, when you want to determine the possibility of the gene to pass down to your child's son/daughter...

for example, A has blue as dominant, and green as minor and B has hazel as dominant and blue as minor...and the possibilities a child's eyes colour of A & B will be...

B=Dominant Blue, b=Minor Blue, H=Dominant Hazel, g=Minor Green

Bg + Hb


BH Bb Hg BH

after crossing the gene, this is the result...so the possibility of the child to have blue eyes is 3/4 and hazel eyes is 1/4

i hope you can understand that...

i htink when a child is born with grey eyes, the child will have grey eyes for the rest of his/her life...

Answer 5

Since they turned a year old, they probably will stay grey. My brother and I both have grey eyes. Sometimes they will even change colors with mood or clothes. My twins both blue eyes, and I was told after 6 months they won't change.

Answer 6

blue eyes are NOT dominant, EVER. You will not know what color her eyes will be for certain until she is nearly 4 years old. Both are more likely to have brown eyes. Green is a small possibility, and blue is a possibility. I would have to know the colors of BOTH your parents' eyes (his and yours) to tell you the exact likely hood of each color.

Answer 7

I have grey eyes, though both of my parents and my sister have blue eyes, and three of my kids have blue eyes, while one got brown eyes from her father. By the way, I have to agree, mine can look blue depending on the way I am wearing my makeup... but either way, I like my grey eyes!! : )

Answer 8

They could stay gray or they could go green or hazel. LIght colored eyes also reflect what a person is wearing.

Answer 9

i'd say that's amazingly uncommon to locate someone with extremely gray eyes. you're fortunate to have someone with fantastic gray eyes you are able to stare into!!! alluring article on "Eye colour" on Wikipedia, btw.

Answer 10

This is how it is for my mom and dad too. My mom has brown eyes and my dad has blue. I have 3 older sisters, so...
1st: Brown
2nd: Brown
3rd: Blue
4th (Me!): Green

Hope this helped!