Children From Interracial Couple?

Question

I'm a white female and my fiance is asian.
I'm just interested in what determines what our children will look like? Is their more chance of them looking asian or white or both?
Thanks. :)

Answer 1

depends. (I know 5 of then, now in their 20's) I find most kids from "white" and Asian parents end up looking more Asian.


what determines it is mostly dominate genes.
Why or how to predict this exactly, I don't know.

Answer 2

You never know. Appearance genes are mostly polygenic, meaning that they are interwoven with other genes in the final physical expression of the gene. Take skin pigmentation, the offspring may have genes for dark skin but if the genes for the delivery of the skin pigment to the skin is moderate to little delivery, then the dark skin gene is masked. So it really is an individual basis analysis to determine what they might look like. A geneticist can put together family pedigree's for you and your husband and come up with a fairly accurate prediction.

This is a great question. Understanding the science behind such controversial subjects is simply the first step in achieving peace. Its appalling to me how people think they know things about subjects as this and want to talk when they have no grounds. My wife is latin and I am white. Countless friends, family, and people that I know wanted to tell me that my daughter would be brown or an olive green! I was infuriated many times by this kind of obtrusive ignorance. I never have experienced an issue where people claimed to know something that was incorrect at that level before. I am a biologist, pre-med student and I know that you can't make a prediction without looking at the entire family on both sides or by analyzing some specific genes in the DNA - which is really costly.

Answer 3

Mixed but more Asian. Probably somewhere around 3/4 Asian at least and 1/4 Caucasian at most. It's really complicated though. Much easier to work out with something like a four-generation pedigree either side, including all hair and eye colours.

Answer 4

Watch Jon and Kate Plus 8 on TLC. The mom is white and the dad is asian. They have adorable kids and they look more asian.

Answer 5

Tom and Helen, had on daughter Jennie. Jennie married George and Louise Jefferson's son Lionel. i do no longer think, there have been no longer different little ones point out, or shown on the instruct for them.

Answer 6

Asiatic genes tend to dominate over Caucasian genes. Your children will look Asian more than anything.

Answer 7

They will have some combination probably close to half from the mother and half from the father of genes that express themselves and deal with appearance.

Answer 8

Generally (and I'm taking this from the experiences of the Pitcairn Islanders) the boys will resemble the father, and the girls resemble the mother (you.)

When the "HMS Bounty" Mutineers fled to Pitcairn Island with women from Tahiti, the generations of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren followed this trend in appearances.

Answer 9

Your children will be beautiful. They will look unique and probably share characteristics of both families. (You will be complemented by strangers so often you will begin to wish you could just go grocery shopping in peace.)

Answer 10

I do not know that such morphological changes mediated by many alleles, some quite additive and polygenic, could be predicted.
Hope for a healthy child would need be enough in this case.