I have brown eyes, my mother blue & father brown. My husband has green. Can my offspring have any other?

Question

eye colour besides brown?

Answer 1

The genetics behind eye color is complicated. Surprisingly, it has not been investigated for eye colors that are combinations of green, brown, or blue (e.g. hazel).

Eye color is not as simple as getting a dominant "brown" allele (i.e. form of the gene), as there are at least 2 genes that play a role in eye color and probably 6 or more modifier genes. This is why doing a simple Punnet Square will not work for predicting the probability of your offspring's eye color. Brown is usually more dominant that blue, for example, but there are exceptions as others have attested with their own families. Your children could have any eye color, and the probabilities of any one color are not equal to the others because it isn't a simple case of inheriting "brown" from mom and "blue" from dad.

FYI: I have taught genetics at a university.

Answer 2

If your asking from a real-life stand point, then yes your child could have another color. We are taught in our basic biology courses that some colors are dominant and some are recessive and we learn to use the punnett square to determine possible outcomes. This is fine for getting the point across, but in real life there are many factors that influence eye color besides a dominant and recessive gene. So theoretically you child could have a completely different color from you or your husband. They may end up with an eye color like a grandparent, great grandparent, etc.

Answer 3

Out of four children, you might, just might, get 2 with blue or green eyes. The others should have brown eyes, and all 4 might have brown eyes, since brown is dominant.

Answer 4

Since brown is dominant, you could be carrying the blue gene recessively. Your husband's green eyes are a combination of blue and hazel. You child could have hazel eyes, blue eyes, or green eyes, although brown is more likely.

Answer 5

Eye shade is set via varieties of chromosomes exceeded down from the mummy and dad. Brown eye is dominant, blue and green eye isn't. If the youngster inherits a million blue gene and a million brown gene, then it could have brown eyes, yet carry the blue and brown gene. If it inherits 2 brown genes, it could have brown eyes, and not carry the blue gene. If it inherits 2 blue genes, it could have blue eyes, and could definately bypass the blue eye to its toddlers.

Answer 6

Based on the genetics, each child you have has a 50/50 chance of either brown or blue-ish eyes.

Answer 7

YES my dads eyes are brown his parents are brown and my moms eyes are gray and her parents werebrown/blue i got the color green so yes it is possible but small chances its genetics

Answer 8

Your child could have any color of eyes.