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How can eye colour genes work?
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No simple answer: Eye color genes are multifactorial - that is a number of genes determine the distribution and color of the pigments which make up the structure of the iris. While brown tends to dominate as a gene, intermediate colors to the lighter colors in the blue spectrum have very complex inheritance.
Answered 7/15/2014
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