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From: charles <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Brown eyes
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 14:12:09 -0400
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John:

Here is a webpage about eye color inheritance. Multiple genes are
involved. The link is in my DNA Testing Info and help page.
http://www.athro.com/evo/gen/inherit1.html

Charles Kerchner
http://www.kerchner.com/dna-info.htm

John Lerch wrote:
> It seems as if there is one gene that is indeed dominant for brown
> eyes--if you've got it, you're brown-eyed and there is no problem with
> your having a blue-eyed child, since you could be heterozygous; but
> there are many degrees of brownness, from near hazel to almost black. As
> a consequence, I've had no problem with citations that two blue eyed
> people can indeed have a brown eyed child. I take that to mean just
> barely brown eyed--on the verge of hazel--not the per.......ity eyes
> that someone complimented my daughter on once. (Don't recall the
> southern expression for that variety of sparkling brown.)

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