Eye Color Predictor

[NicMom]

I thought you guys might like this. It is a tool to help predict the color of your babies eyes.

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/index.php

(under online exhibits)

[binkin]

I love that thing. Sadly I have hazel eyes, so it doesn't really work for me, but I play with it all the time anyway

[astar326]

this is great! dc will have a 50% chance of brown, 37.5% chance of blue, & 12.5% chance of green. i have brown eyes and dh has blue. i'm really hoping dc will have green or blue eyes. :

[Bromache]

66.6% chance of brown, 23.3% green, and 10% blue. Sounds about what I would assume. DS has my lighter brown hair and DH's brown eyes. It would be cool if #2 has my light eyes and DH's dark brown/almost black hair, but we'll see!

[fyrebloom]

I love playing with that thing. It's funny, I have SUPER dark brown eyes and my children are all brown eyed. My daughters both have the same dark brown as I have. Both of my partners are blue eyed and my brothers are hazel and blue. My father is brown and my mother was hazel. It should be very interesting to see if this one has blue or brown (or even green, My grandma was green eyed).

[jillybeans]

I have green, dh has blue, and both of our girls have blue. It shows as 50% blue and 50% green, so I guess maybe we'll have a green eyed baby this time?

[Leilamus]

i have brown (DP thinks they're Hazel though) and DP has blue. Both of our boys have beautiful light green eyes. This says it'll be 50% brown, 40% blue and 10% green. So it's pretty interesting that we've gotten the 10% results with both boys.

[Minerva]

Cute. Too bad it doesn't work for non-Mendelian colours. Too many variables, I suppose.

My eyes are brown-flecked dark green, and the husband's are bluish-green. The toddler 'caught' my father's grey eyes.

[chanda7]

Mine is 86.3% brown, 8.5% green, 5.1% blue. I have one brown-eyed child and one blue-eyed child.

[Sarah W]

I just had a situation at BRU the other day. Someone asked about DD's eye color, when we knew she was going to have blue eyes. I said, "Well, we both have blue eyes (mine are green), so we knew she'd be blue or green eyed."

The lady said, "No, it doesn't work that way. My brother has blue eyes and so does his GF. Their new baby has brown eyes."

I just said, "Oh." Nothing good could have come from a conversation about genetics.

[binkin]

Actually it is possible for blue-eyed parents to have a brown-eyed child, because the genes are more complex than just the simple Mendelian explanation you're probably thinking of (and which the calculator uses). So... not a good paternity test.