Expert: Walter Hintz - 3/26/2008

Question
My eyes are a reddish brown color, my mom's are the same as mine. My dad's are hazel-green. My grandfather had blue eyes and my grandma had brown eyes. Everyone on my side has colored eyes or brown with green. My sister is the only one with amber eyes. My husband has amber eyes. His mother has brown with green as to his father having brown. On his mom's side only her father side has blue to green eyes only. His father's side they all have different shades of brown. Our daughter is three and has green eyes since she was 6-months old. Our son is 2 months old and has blue/grey eyes but near the iris it is yellow/golden brown color. I was wondering what color they may change into, not that it matters just curious. Here are a few links to see for yourself. Thanks.


http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/icyfyeress/lookingup.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/icyfyeress/Arcturuseyecloseupjpg.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/icyfyeress/toasty.jpg


Answer
AS you can see there is not just a single eye color like brown or blue but variations between.  This is because the color is determined my multiple gene pairs.  It is difficult to predict what will occur with your sons eye color but light colors (blue) are recessive.  It is probable the he will keep bluish eyes.