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What influences your looks more? mom or dad or parent of same gender?

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Unpredictable: Over 3 decades of watching this play out, i find no predictable pattern. In some families dad's genes seem dominant & some mom's.Some have bits of both & some seem unrelated.

Answered 11/7/2012

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