Is it possible for two asian parents to produce a white blond haried kid with asian eyes?

Question

me n my sis made a new friend recently. she's asian(malaysian) (im asian too) we went to her house n me n her played MMORPG's like toontown and pirate king when her aunt(she is put in uk by parents for education,they live in malaysia) came home with her bro. he has asian eyes like me and my freind but is white and blond! i asked her if he was her step/adopted/half-bro or if dere was a mix up at the hospital.she and her bro. said no. they showed me a picture of their parents and both her parents look malay or some other south-east asian group. how is this possible?my friend n me have brown skin btw- im indian n burmese(also a bit native american)

he has brown eyes not blue

he has white skin(my friend has brown) and his hair is so blond its white

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible . Unless both family trees are extremely far beyond asian roots (both sides) he should be asking some questions.....

Answer 2

First of all, cutting your eyelashes or your hair will NOT make it grow faster nor longer. Its a MYTH although many doctors still believe that. However, it's been scientifically proven to be FALSE. Unlike hair, eyelashes can only grow up to a certain length. It depends on your genetics. I would know, my mom's a beautician. Anyway, to answer your question, yes it is true that some parents (or the kid themself) cut their eyelashes, but just the parents that actually believed what I mentioned above. They do it because they think that it will grow longer and that having long eyelashes is attractive, not really because they want to look a certain race, if you get me. I'm Asian and my eyelashes are very long that I sometimes get irritated when wearing glasses because they touch the lenses, but my parents did not cut them. So, basically it has nothing to do with wanting to be Caucasian.

Answer 3

Either:

1. He's adopted and they don't want to share it with you. Unlikely if he has "Asian eyes" as you call them.
2. He's got a white ancestor somewhere and the recessive genes have popped up. This can happen with white parents who have black kids and are like ?!£*(") and the father thinks there's been an affair etc. but it's just one of those things.
3. He's an albino. Is his hair so blond it's almost white? What colour are his eyes? If they're pink or blue there's a chance that he's an albino. Albinos tend to have problems with their eyesight as well, due to the lack of pigment in them. Does he wear glasses?

You're going to have to provide more information if we are to distinguish between possibility 2 and 3.

Answer 4

There is a population of blonde, blueyed Asians in I believe Northern China/Southern Russia.

And from the Tokla Makan (sp) desert - were Asians who appeared to be more like red-haired, Caucasians

So yes, while this is rare - but it happens.

Answer 5

yep it is possible. People can carry recessive genes ( like blonde hair, blue eyes ) and have dominant gene features ( dark hair, dark eyes). Totally possible. Must have been a fair person in both parents genetic history. :)

Answer 6

Could be that there was a Caucasian in the family somewhere in the line and sometimes genetic traits disappear for a while and reappear somewhere down the road.

Answer 7

Maybe she is and albino. A gene defect can cause people to have the pigments that usually give black hair to not fuction and hence blonde hair.

Answer 8

Find the genes or alleles for the trait and do a punnett square, this will tell your friend whether his dad should shoot the fed-ex man.
My professor was doing this once in class and two of his students found out...one was adopted and one had his dad's brother as his real father. From wikipedia:
The Punnett square is a diagram designed by Reginald Punnett and used by biologists to determine the probability of an offspring having a particular genotype. It is made by comparing all the possible combinations of alleles from the mother with those from the father.
[edit] Typical monohybrid cross
The Punnett square shows every possible combination when combining one maternal allele with one paternal allele. In this example, both organisms have the genotype Bb. They can produce gametes that contain either the B or b alleles. (It is conventional in genetics to use capital letters to indicate dominant alleles and lower-case letters to indicate recessive alleles.) The probablility of an individual offspring having the genotype BB is 25%, Bb is 50%, and bb is 25%.

Maternal
B b
Paternal B BB Bb
b Bb bb

It is important to note that Punnett squares only give probabilities for genotypes, not phenotypes. The way in which the B and b alleles interact with each other to affect the appearance of the offspring depends on how the gene products (proteins) interact (see Mendelian inheritance). For classical dominant/recessive genes, like that which determines whether a rat has black hair (B) or white hair (b), the dominant allele will mask the recessive one. Thus in the example above 75% of the offspring will be black (BB or Bb) while only 25% will be white (bb). The ratio of the phenotypes is 3:1, typical for a monohybrid cross.


[edit] Typical dihybrid cross
More complicated crosses can be made by looking at two or more genes. The Punnett square only works, however, if the genes are independent of each other, which means that having a particular allele of gene X does not imply having a particular allele of gene Y.

The following example illustrates a dihybrid cross between two heterozygous pea plants. R represents the dominant allele for shape (round), while r represents the recessive allele (wrinkled). Y represents the dominant allele for color (yellow), while y represents the recessive allele (green). Each plant has the genotype Rr Yy, and since the alleles for shape and color genes are independent, they can produce four types of gametes with all possible combinations: RY, Ry, rY and ry.

RY Ry rY ry
RY RRYY RRYy RrYY RrYy
Ry RRYy RRyy RrYy Rryy
rY RrYY RrYy rrYY rrYy
ry RrYy Rryy rrYy rryy

Since dominant traits mask recessive traits, there are nine combinations that have the phenotype round yellow, three that are round green, three that are wrinkled yellow and one that is wrinkled green. The ratio 9:3:3:1 is typical for a dihybrid cross.


[edit] Situations where Punnett squares do not apply
The phenotypic ratios of 3:1 and 9:3:3:1 are theoretical predictions based on the assumptions of segregation and independent assortment of alleles (see Mendelian inheritance). Deviations from the expected ratios can occur if any of the following conditions exists:

the alleles in question are physically linked on the same chromosome
one parent lacks a copy of the gene, e.g. human males have only one X chromosome, from their mother, so only the maternal alleles have an effect on the organism (see sex linkage)
the survival rate of different genotypes is not the same, e.g. one combination of alleles may be lethal so that the affected offspring dies in utero
alleles may show incomplete dominance or co-dominance (see dominance relationship)
there are genetic interactions (epistasis) between alleles of different genes
the trait is inherited on genetic material from only one parent, e.g. mitochondrial DNA is only inherited from the mother (see maternal effect)

Answer 9

for me it depends on the girl. Like I might observe a girl with black hair as well as think she is totally hot however see a girl with blond hair that is meh and vice versa.

Answer 10

wow... it is possible... but very rare..
u know philippines?? the country next to malaysia are asian too. there ae sometimes blue eyed filipina