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Eye color

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The color of the iris.

The genetics of eye color are complicated.

Eye color is polygenic.

It is determined by multiple genes.

The eye color genes include EYCL1 (a green/blue eye color gene located on chromosome 19), EYCL2 (a brown eye color gene) and EYCL3 (a brown/blue eye color gene located on chromosome 15).

There are clearly other genes that influence eye color.

The once-held view that blue eye color is a simple recessive trait has been shown to be wrong.

The genetics of eye color are so complex that almost any parent-child combination of eye colors can occur.

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