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How You Got Your Baby Blues

If you're expecting, you may be trying to guess your baby's eye color based on the eye color of grandparents and other family members. This month, in honor of Mother's Day, we take a look at eye color inheritance, which is a bit more complicated than we may have learned in high school. So the next time someone says to you, "You have your mother's eyes," you can reply, "Well, I certainly have her alleles."

How is eye color determined?

Eye color is a physical trait that is determined by the pairing of genes from both parents. Scientists used to think that a single gene pair following dominant and recessive inheritance patterns was responsible for this trait. Now they know there are at least three gene pairs controlling human eye color.

How do people get hazel or gray eyes?

The two-gene model cannot account for hazel or gray eyes, nor can it explain how it is possible for two brown-eyed parents to have a blue- or green-eyed child. It also provides no ready explanation for the rich multiplicity of eye shades, from cocoa-colored brown to teal blue to sage green.

This suggests the existence of other genes, yet to be discovered, that determine eye color or modify the expression of the known eye color genes. Or perhaps mutations or other factors are also involved in eye color inheritance.

What about people who have two different-colored eyes?

The condition of having two irises of different colors is called heterochromia iridium, which is a rare hereditary trait.

Heterochromia iridium can also be caused by trauma to the eye, or eye diseases and the medications used to treat them (such as that for glaucoma), which increase or decrease the pigmentation of one eye. The musician David Bowie, actress Kate Bosworth, and actor Joe Pesci all have this condition.

While we're on the topic of Moms and eyes...

"Is it true that if you cross your eyes, they'll stay that way forever?"

No, this is a myth. But please don't sit so close to the TV! :-)

Happy Mother's Day from all of us at Protect Your Eyesight.com

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Vision Facts of the Month

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