Eye Color

[Unregistered]

My wife and I both have green eyes and our daughter has brown eyes. What is the probability of this happening and do you recommend I get a dna test?

[MatreenaRose]

The question of eye color, and how it is passed from parents to progeny, has been a topic of debate among geneticists for decades. It has long been thought that eye color follows a simple Mendelian inheritance pattern.

Generally speaking, by Mendelian inheritance rules, eye color is inherited very similarly to the way we inherit hair color: genes for darker colors are dominant – meaning that the traits (or phenotypes) they code for take precedence over the traits coded for by genes for a lighter color.

[fanton001]

My wife and I both have green eyes and our daughter has brown eyes. What is the probability of this happening and do you recommend I get a dna test?

This is the natural fact to have different eye color and you won't have any doubt on your wife and I can't recommend you about any DNA test... My parents have black eye color but I have brown... This is by nature and some kind of family side coming color and many habit in the children's .... So have a broad view and mind...