What eye color would our child have?

Question

If i have brown/hazel eyes and my husband had blue eyes. What eye color would our child have?

Answer 1

Probably blue.

My husband has blue eyes, my eyes are hazel and our son has blue.

Answer 2

Kiki14 is right on this. The brown (BB) gene is dominant, so theoretically, 1/2 the children you have will have brown eyes, 1/2 blue. But there are variations in color that can't be predicted and that may fall somewhere in between. It seems more useful to think of it in terms of "light-colored" versus "dark-colored" eyes. I have very dark brown eyes; my husband's are a light, true green; our son (8) has hazel eyes, so we're not even sure whose gene he got. Whatever color they turn out to be, trust me, you'll find them beautiful. :)

Answer 3

Most likely brown because it is the dominant colour. If you both had blue, the child would most likely have blue eyes too. But it depends on genetics as well (grandparents, etc), you never know.

Answer 4

Like everyone has said, brown is dominant. However, it depends on what genes you yourself have. If one of your parents had light eyes or passed you a gene for light eyes, then you may pass that to your son, thus giving him light eyes. Even if you don't pass a blue/green eye gene, hormones have so much to do with it. My dad is homogeneous for brown eyes and my mother is homogeneous for blue, and yet I have tri-colored eyes. You never completely know!

Answer 5

Eye colour is not inherited via just one gene.

DNA Canada has proposed an eye colour inheritance model that assumes there are six genes involved and each can either be for light or for dark eyes, with dark dominating light. In the model they propose seven eye colours varying from very light blue with 6 light genes and 0 dark genes to dark brown with 0 light genes and 6 dark genes. Hazel is the mid point with 3 genes of each type. The others are:
blue (5 L, 1D), green (4L, 2D), light brown (2L, 4D) and brown (1L, 5D).

Your child with inherit 3 genes from each parent. From you, if eyes are hazel, child will inherit one of these combos:
(0L, 3D), (1L, 2D), (2L,1D), or (3L, 0D)
From your husband, if eyes are blue, will inherit one of
(2L, 1D) or (3L, 0D)

Adding the genes together, your child could have any of the following combinations:
2L, 4D -- light brown
3L, 3D -- hazel
4L, 2D -- green
5L, 1D -- blue
6L, 0D -- light blue

Answer 6

brown eyes are dominant traits, and blue eyes are recessive. this means with one brown, and one blue, your kid will most likely have brown. to get blue eyes, most of the time both parents have to have blue, but not always. For brown eyes, most of the time, you only need one, because brown is dominant and blue is recessive. make sense?... i hope so..

Answer 7

brown is actually the dominent colour. So it is more likely that it would be brown. BUT if you have 4 children (so they say) one of them will have blue eyes. Thats the statist .