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Does a decrease in melanin lighten your eye colour ?
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No effect: Melanin is largely constant after infancy throughout the body including the eye color. There is differential clumping which is responsible for tanning but this is not due to a change in the amount. If you melanin were truly lightening, the eye color would remain the same.
Answered 9/16/2015
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