My whole family has brown eyes, I have blue?

Question

My whole family (mom, dad, both sets of grandparents, all seven siblings) have brown eyes. Only my uncle on my father's side has blue eyes and my great grandfather on my mother's side. Everyone else has brown eyes, except for my grandmother, who has green. Just curious, what were the odds?

Answer 1

consider yourself lucky. you got the genes that contains the blue eyes

Answer 2

1 in 4.

Blue eyes are a recessive gene. So that means both of your parents are hybrid for blue eyes. They have the genes for brown eyes and blue eyes. Brown eyes are dominate so that is the trait that they express. you had a 25% chance of being pure brown, a 50% chance of being hybrid brown, and a 25% of being blue eyed. It is possible that someone in your line 500 years ago had blue eyes and that is where you get it from. Unlikely but possible.

Answer 3

Your the blue eyed sheep of the family.

Answer 4

normally you have brown eyes. its a small possibility to have blue eyes..but you have blue eyes! It's lucky and its rare! Have a confidence of that!

Answer 5

every person has two eye genes (one from each parent). the genes could be 2 genes of one eye color or 1 gene of two different eye colors. one of those genes will show up as your eye color. one or both of your parents could have a recessive blue which is where they have a blue gene but it didn't show up in their eye color. that's how you could have gotten blue eyes. and it sounds like one of your grandparents had a recessive blue which is probably why your uncle has blue eyes. it's not exactly a rarity that you have blue eyes but it's probably not common either.

(btw, i have blue eyes and the only person i'm closely related to that has blue eyes is my grandmother.