Could a child of a white father and an Asian mother have blue eyes and brown hair?

Question

I've noticed that the mother has brown eyes and black hair. the father has light-brown hair and blue eyes. Some people say yes this might happen but could you explain how this work? do they have any ways to make it happen the way they want it to?

Answer 1

It's very possible. Blue eyes are a recessive trait, meaning that when one parent has a dominant color -- brown -- blue eyes may still be within them and just not expressed. Sometimes it takes generations for a recessive trait to express itself. Using a punnett square, you can see the mathematical chances of this and other eye colors happening from in their children (brown eyes/blue eyes and black hair/brown hair examples).

Even easier. This one is an eye color calculator. Enjoy. http://www.athro.com/evo/inherit.html

Hair color tends to be harder. Here's an article to help you get the information you need: http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=39

Answer 2

There are a few Asians with blue eyes, although it is rare. Blue eyes are caused by a recessive gene. Anyone with blue eyes has two recessive genes, one from each parent. So the mother, even thoug she has brown eyes (brown is dominant) is carrying a blue recessive gene. Since the father can contribute only the recessive genes, and the mother has a 50\50 chance of passing on either a brown (dominant) or a blue (recessive) gene, any child they have will have a 50% chance of having blue eyes.

In a population with mostly brown eyes there can be recessive genes that some carry but rarely show do to the prevalence of homozygous (carrying two of the same type) brown genes. When two people each with a recessive gene and a dominant gene (heterozygous) produce a child that child will have a 25% chance of showing the recessive gene.

With hair color being controlled by more than one gene the math gets more complicated.

It's all playing the odds.

Answer 3

Its in the Gene's its very hard to explain,

O Asian O brown eyes O black hair

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O white skin O brown hair O blue eyes

those are the genes of the father and mother,
the childs could be any of many combinations:

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O White Skin O Brown Hair O Blue Eyes
or
O Asian O Brown eyes O Black Hair
or
O White Skin O Brown Eyes O Black Hair
or
OAsian O Brown Hair O Brown Eyes
or
O Asian O Black Hair O Blue eyes...

ETC .. you get the Idea, your question Combination can be one of these, So yes, Its possible

Answer 4

It's rarely having blue eyes except the Asian mom is carrying recessive trait is blue eyes. It can happen on this way. The daughter or son of parents ( white father and Asian mom) have brown eyes but they are carrying the blue eyes recessive trait from the white father. After they married to other white father or other asian ( mixed same as them) , so they also carry blue eyes recessive trait. Then their babies may get blue eyes with Asian features or Babies could get blue eyes with white features look like the previous generation as grandfather or aunts...etc. It is rarely to have blue eyes if the mom with the black eyes and black hairs. The most popular is brown eyes show up on their children. It can happen when there is some silly mutual and blue eyes show up on Asian features.

Answer 5

Hey its all about genes. Some genes are dominate and some are recessive. Like in reality having six fingers is the dominate gene, but since most people have two recessive genes, they end up with five fingers. Just remember that every person has two of each gene, which means they can get a mix and it can be almost impossible to tell exactly what you might get. There are certain doctors and things that could to testing and give you an idea of the chance of something, but really you never know. Maybe your great-great-great grandmother has passed down a recessive gene to you that hasn't really come shown itself until you pass it to your baby. Looking at your family history can give you an idea of what your baby would look like, but sometimes you just get thrown a curve-ball. Blue eyes are recessive, brown dominate, but a blue eyed gene may have been passed down through many of your generations, but never manifested because the brown was dominate. You just never know :)

Answer 6

To have this happen the way they want to would be considered genetic engineering which thus far isn't acceptable as far as society goes (not for humans anyway).

The father's genes were more predominant in this pregnancy and even if the father doesn't have blue eyes, there is someone within his family who does have them, thus the eye color does exist within the family tree.

Perhaps the next infant for this couple will have the traits of the mother...it all depends on whose genes are stronger when conception takes place

Answer 7

yes, it's all in the genes.
say the asian mother had a white father, who had blue eyes, but the mother, also asian had dominant brown eyes. So far, it would look like this:
bb x BB (eye color) which makes the mother now Bb, she meets a man with blue eyes, there kid has a 50% chance of getting blue eyes.

The genetic cross would be Bb x bb, making the possible outcomes Bb or bb.

Answer 8

Absolutely. In fact, even if BOTH parents have dark colored eyes ... but there was a ancestor ... who had blue eyes, the child could end up with blue eyes.

No, you can't "make" a child have blue eyes ... unless it's through artificial insemination, where they are able to screw around with the genes that determine eye color...silly really. A person should just be happy that their child is healthy and HAS eyes.

Answer 9

The Asian mother would have had to have a fairly recent blue-eyed ancestor in order to carry the (recessive) genes for blue eyes.

Answer 10

I am white, the father of my children was black. You need to do your biology windows again. Of course it is possible. What is even funnier, none of my kids (4) had blue eyes like me. The third child in my twins families both have blue-green eyes, though, a full generation away from me. Don't think you could make it come out by choice like that, though.