i have blue/green eyes my hubby has blue? the kids?

Question

my mom has-green dad-blue
i had blue until 18 they turned blue/green
my hubby-blue
his parents-brown
he's 1 out of 6 with blue
what are the chances of blue with the kids?
2 boys so far both blue

Answer 1

First of all, everyone here totally screwed up their answers. Blue is NOT dominant. It is a recessive gene. The fact that your hubby has blue eyes means that he ONLY carries the gene for blue eyes. He got one gene from his mom and one from his dad, and they both HAD to pass on the blue eye gene for him to have it. IF one parent had passed on a blue eye gene but the other parent passed on a brown eye gene, then he would have brown eyes but carry a gene for blue that he could pass on. However, because his eyes are actually blue, that means that BOTH genes he got for eye color are blue.

Second, same thing applies to you, too. This means that since you and your hubby both have blue eyes, neither you or your hubby carry genes for ANY other eye color. That means that 100% of all your kids WILL HAVE BLUE EYES ONLY. You have NO other genetic options here.

The simple genetics is that basically, the genes for eye color are blue, green, brown, hazel. Anything else is a variation of these colors and not an independent gene color itself. Look at a box of 64 crayons. There are about 18 different blues in there: "Denim", "Cornflower", etc., but they are still blue, just a variation of blue. Eye color is the same way. The gene for blue eyes is just blue. But, the shade may vary from person to person. This is why you have blue-green eyes. It is a variation of your gene for blue eyes.

Answer 2

Brown eyes are dominant over blue or hazel eyes. A brown eyed person can carry some very strong recessive blue eyed genes and pass it on to his/her children.

It is a fallacy that two blue peole cannot have a brown eyed child. The reason why it is stated if a blue eyed person has a brown eyed parent any recessive brown eyed gene they carry has to be very weak for them not to be brown eyed. However if both the blue eyed parents have a brown eyed parent, then combining the weak recessive genes can produce a brown eyed child.

Answer 3

You carry blue and blue green.
He carries blue and brown.
Your children: 1 child blue/green, 2 children blue, and 1 child brown/green.
But, you never know for sure because one parents genes can be more predominant in a child. And, like you've noticed, eyes can change over time.

To answer socalchelle's question, if one parent carries the blue gene, one of their children can have blue eyes. Like in my family:
Mom carries brown and brown.
Dad carries brown and blue.
Both parents have brown eyes, but a lot of aunts and uncles on my dad's side of the family have blue eyes. My parents had 4 children: brown, brown, brown, and blue.

Answer 4

Fortunately, or unfortunately, as the case may be, you can not do percentages on such a thing. Why? Even though brown eyes are dominant over blue, etc., in the vast gene pool, anything goes. Brown, blue, green, gray, hazel, or "white" (albino) eyes are possible.

Answer 5

WOW! I learned this in biology and I forgot the pattern it falls under. My husband has hazle brown eyes, I have green, and both of our mother's have blue eyes. Our son has blue eyes.
I guess it just depends on which gene/color is the dominate one.

Answer 6

His parents have brown eyes, but he has blue? I always thought both parents HAD to have blue eyes for the child to have blue eyes. Hmmmm....

Anyway, I think there's a pretty good chance your kids' eyes will be blue or green.

Answer 7

Slim to none, and if the baby you saw wa still under the age of one years old than there eyes may change colors. Most white babies are born with blue eyes that change colors later, so if her father was white than they may still change colors

Answer 8

Your kids will probably all have blue eyes. It'd be cute to have a brown eyed lil princess! To Sandy O-I'm black/white, my BF is white and we both have brown eyes--our 16 month old daughter has bright blue eyes!

Answer 9

This is a hard question to answer. The child may have your eyecolor, or your husband's. Your child's eye color will depend on the dominant and recessive genes both you and your husband carry. If you both carry the recessive gene for brown eyes, your child may even have brown eye color, since brown is the most dominant eye color.

The abbreviated answer is...you'll have to wait and see.

Answer 10

blue is a dominant gene so your children will have a three in four chance of having blue eyes and one in four chance of having green eyes unless theres a through back of brown. hope thats ok.