My husband and I both have blue eyes. What are the chances of having a child without blue eyes?

Question

Also my mother has green eyes and my father has brown. (I ended up with blue!)

And my husband's parents both have blue.

Answer 1

The official genetics answer is 0%, since blue eyes are a result of a double-recessive gene, but of course there is always a chance of a rogue dark-eyed gene sneaking in from one side of the family, but it is rather rare.  Little is still known about genetics, since there are always anomalies that prove to be exceptions to the rule.

Answer 2

In my biology class in college we studies genetics and there seems to be no chance that your child would have any other eye color other than blue.

Answer 3

Start studying at the reference, but this question of genetics is not easy to answer.  You can probably get an accurate answer if you research it enough.

Answer 4

Depends on who you sleep with.

Answer 5

Greater than 50%, I would imagine (considering both of you have blue eyes, that would be the dominate gene passed down to your child).  

Answer 6

Slim chance but possible. I was teaching genetics and asked students to come up with problems other than the usual pea plants. One student was brown-eyed, with blue-eyed parents. I had to give a quick lesson in incomplete penetrance. It beat blaming the milkman.

Answer 7

none what so ever,don't listen to them...i study medicin.It doesn't matter what colour u'r parents eyes are...if u both have blue eyes,thn the baby will have the same eyes.There is one case in over 2 milion that turned out differently

Answer 8

Classical genetics would say 0%.. however genetics doesn't always happen so simply.. you can have a child without blue eyes.. most LIKELY they will have green if not blue.. but brown is not out of the question, and is rare.

Answer 9

The easy answer is 25%.  However, depends on what your other gene is.  If Blue is dominant, then the percentage is even lower.  

Answer 10

Pretty low.

There are a few of genes which influence eye color, but blue has the property that if you have an allele for blue, and an allele for a darker color, you'll see the darker color, and not the blue.  So most likely, neither you your your husband can pass an allele for brown or black to your offspring, because your eye color indicate that you possess no such allele.

But you may have gene and alleles for grey or green, which maybe the blue is covering up.