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Up until not too long ago, even doctors used to think used to think that eye color was determined by a single gene and followed a simple inheritance pattern in which brown eyes were dominant to blue eyes. However, a baby’s eye color doesn’t come out as a blend of the parent’s eye, as if you mixed paint. It follows that iris coloring is governed by genetics. If both parents have blue eyes, there’s a good chance their offspring has blue eyes as well. what color the eyes appear) and not the genes themselves, it is not going to be 100% accurate in every case. Because it only factors in the phenotype (i.e. How eye color is inherited Note that this chart only takes into account parents’ eye colors. Disease and trauma can also inflict changes in iris coloring. Much later in life, our eyes can change color once more. In time, the concentration of melanin increases and by age three, the eyes will have darkened to their true, final resting color. This is true for all babies, no matter their ancestry. When we come into this world, our eyes are blue or almost colorless. It follows that darker eyes, which have the most melanin, are less sensitive to the sun’s harmful rays than lighter eyes like blue. The table below shows how melanin content influences eye color.īesides making eyes colored, the pigment melanin also serves the vital function of protecting them from the sun’s UV rays. The eyes can appear violet in certain lighting conditions when the red color mixes with the bluish color resulting from light-scattering effects - basically for the same reason why the sky is blue. This is the same reason why you sometimes appear red-eyed in photos. Albino eyes may appear red because the light reflected first off blood vessels at the back of the retina. Because albino people essentially lack pigment in the iris, light simply bounces off the back of the eye. Lastly, people with albinism, a condition that causes a complete lack of or very low levels of pigment in the skin, hair, and eyes, sometimes appear to have violet or red eyes. It’s not clear how amber eyes form but some suggest it’s due to the increased presence of a pigment called lipochrome (also known as pheomelanin). They can also contain a small amount of gold-ish gray.
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which are even rarer than green eyes. Amber eyes or ‘wolf eyes’ as they’re sometimes called are completely solid and have a strong yellowish, golden, or russet and coppery tint.