Different eye colour. How rare is it to see people with 2 different eye colour ?
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Having one's eyes not the same colour is known as heterochromia, and is usually the result of damage to one or other eye.\n----\nThe Q & A below is the best reference I could find:\nQuestion:\nI have Heterochromia iridis (different colored eyes, where one eye is of two colors), and I was wondering if there are statistics on how many other people have this trait? My particular case is independent of disease or disorder, but I was curious. \n \nAnswer:\nWe were unable to find a specific number for the frequency of heterochromia of the iris in the general population. Asymmetry in the pigmentation of the irides probably occurs as an isolated phenomenon inherited as a dominant trait. This means a parent with heterochromia of the iris has a 50/50 chance to pass the trait to their offspring.
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Yes, it can happen.\n\nHeterochromia (also known as a heterochromia iridis or heterochromia iridium) is an ocular condition in which one iris is a different color from the other iris (complete heterochromia), or where the part of one iris is a different color from the remainder (partial heterochromia or sectoral heterochromia). \n\nUncommon in humans, it is often an indicator of ocular disease, such as chronic iritis or diffuse iris melanoma, but may also occur as a normal variant. Sectors or patches of strikingly different colors in the same iris are less common. \n\nAlexander the Great and Anastasios the First were dubbed δικορος (dikoros, "with two pupils") for their patent heterochromias. In their case, this was not a true dicoria (two pupils in the same iris). \n\nReal polycoria can be due to disease but is most often due to previous trauma or surgery.\n\nIn contrast, heterochromia and variegated iris patterns are common in veterinary practice. \n\nSiberian Huskies show heterochromia due to interbreeding, possibly analogous to the genetically-determined Waardenburg syndrome of humans. Some white cat fancies (e.g., white Persians) may show striking heterochromia, with the commonest pattern being one uniformly blue, the other green. Striking variegation within the same iris is also common in some animals, and is the norm in some species. Several herding breeds, particularly those with a blue merle coat color (such as Australian Shepherds and Border Collies) may show well-defined blue areas within a brown iris as well as separate blue and darker eyes. Some horses (usually within the white, spotted, palomino or cremello groups of breeds) may show amber, brown, white, and blue all within the same eye, without any sign of eye disease.\n\nOne eye with a white or bluish-white iris is also known as a walleye.
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your chances are 50% because you must carry the reccessive gene for green/blue eyes.  your mother has green eyes she must carry dominant brown and recessive blue and father's blue eyed.  father has two reccessive blue genes, you have a dominant brown gene and reccessive blue. good luck...u will probabley get green eyed! mix of the two!!
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By Mendelian theory, no. (bb= blue, BB & Bb=brown)\nBlue eyes are a recessive trait \nbb x bb = only bb\nNow if they were Brown eyed with the blue recessive trait and a blue eyed spouse\nBb x bb = Bb Bb bb bb\n\n-----------BUT---------------------\n\nMost of us learned the model for determining eye color that G.C. Davenport and C.B. Davenport devised in 1907. The Davenport model wrongly says brown eye color is always dominant over blue eye color, which means that two blue-eyed parents always have blue-eyed kids. We know better now.\n\n"Although not common, two blue-eyed parents can produce children with brown eyes," says Richard A. Sturm, a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.\n\nEye color is a complex trait that depends on the state of several interacting genes. The gene that usually decides the issue (blue eyes or brown eyes) is the OCA2 gene on chromosome 15. But it comes in different strengths. A person with a weak form of the OCA2 gene will have blue eyes. Likewise a person with a strong form will have brown eyes. \n\nThe plot thickens, though, because an individual also has other eye-color genes that each has a say in the final eye-color outcome. For example, if one of these lesser genes is strong, it can make the weak form (blue) of OCA2 work much more effectively — almost like the strong form (brown). Then the eye color may be a light brown or muddy grey. In fact, the resulting color can be any shade of brown, hazel/green, or blue depending on the strengths of the interactions.\n\nSo, yes... two blue eyed parents can produce a brown eyed baby.
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Most babies have blue eyes when they are born and then their eyes darken as they age.\n\nWhen someone has two eyes of a different color it is pretty rare and usually results from some sort of genetic loss of pigmentation or can result from eye trauma.\n\nThe basis of eye color mostly has to do with melanin pigmentation.  If you have a lot of melanin you have brown eyes if you have very little you have blue eyes.  Everyone else is somewhere in between except people with green eyes which can result from flecks of yellowish fatty pigments against a dark background.
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There are also, rarely, some people whose eyes appear aqua or violet, as well as the pink-eyed albinos. Eye color is determined by the concentration and distribution of melanin in the iris, which affects how light is reflected by the iris. The limitations on eye color are probably the same as the limitations on skin color, which is all controlled by melanin.\n\nHere's a link to an interesting article on eye color.
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Not many people have black hair and blue eyes, but the effect is pronounced and quite lovely.\nHaving natural Black hair and blue eyes is commonly a Celtic trait.  If you are of European origin, my guess would be that you have a Celtic background.  My grandfather was Welsh and he had dark hair and bright blue eyes.\nI've also heard of Indian people having similar characteristics.
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The color which you are seeing may look differently to other person.\nIt depends on how eyes recieve the color and how the brain interprets the signals.\n\nThis is very difficult to answer. if one can be made to work with more than one brains, then probably, it can be answered correctly!!!
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I've seen two people with pale purple irises, before the time of colored contacts. So it must be possible.
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I am Welsh. Most fellow Welsh people I know have dark hair, but I do know a lot of people who have light coloured eyes. I myself have black hair and dark brown eyes although blue eyes do also run in my family.
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Yes, the colour of the eyes can change by using contact lenses. I don't know if it can change by a physical way.
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it might be serious or might just be tiredness or brain working toomuch! the big problem hope is not could be colour deficiency in the eye theses are a few types of signs. no need to be alarmed. just relax and have a check with ur doctor.\n\ncheers\nGood Question!
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I like light eyes very much, they're more uncommon than the dark ones... though I have to admit I love green eyes, just staring at someone with that eyecolour makes me feel like I'm floating. It's a really beautiful coulour.
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according to Fischers Hair and Eye color survey of Scottish school children, fair hair and light eyes were nearly tied with dark Hair and dark eyes. Fair and blue were also well represented.\n14 percent of people in Scotland are red heads. \nThe least common hair color is black. Least common combination is black hair and light eyes or black hair and blue eyes.\nI don't know what distinction was made between "light" and blue eyes in the survey.
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It's a question of genetics. Different genes will lead to different quantities of various substances produced and present in some part of your body. Eye color is mainly determined by the pigment melanin (the same that gives you a tan when you lie in the sun). \n\nIf your eyes have a lot of it, they're brown. If they don't, they're blue. Green eyes result from yellowish flecks of a fatty pigment against a dark background, and no melanin.\n\nThere you go :-)
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I do also, have since childhood. An eye doctor told me that it is not all that uncommon. He had a word for it that I do not recall. Harmless, and somehow related to the eyes. Great news is, your children can expect to have it also.
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Their skin is a differnt colour.