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Eye Color Paternity Test
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The IDENTIGENE Eye Color Paternity Test shows how eye color and inherited trait theory can be used to answer paternity questions.
Eye Color Paternity Test
Select eye colors for the Biological Mother, Child and Alleged Father.
Eye color paternity tests offer some clues about paternity, but do not provide reliable paternity test results. An IDENTIGENE DNA Paternity Test provides fast, accurate, reliable results for questions only DNA can answer.™
EYE COLOR HISTORY
Determining paternity based on eye color dates back to the 19th century. Based on the work of Gregor Mendel, scientists began unlocking the secrets of inherited traits. Theories about genes and human development eventually led great minds like Watson and Crick to unravel the DNA double helix model, paving the way for modern geneticists to sequence the entire human genome in 2001.
Eye color follows a polygenic inheritance pattern, and is probably controlled by 6 or more genes. Generally, these genes express themselves as one of 8 different eye colors. "Dark" is dominant at each of the 6 genes. The more dominant alleles present, the darker eye color appears.
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An eye color paternity test assumes that lighter-eyed parents cannot have darker-eyed children. For example:
- 2 'light blue' eyed parents cannot have a 'blue' eyed (or darker eyed) child.
- 2 'blue' eyed parents can have a 'Blue-green' (or lighter) eyed child, but not hazel or anything darker.
- 2 'blue-green' eyed parents can have a 'light brown' (or lighter) eyed child, but not brown or anything darker.
- 1 'light brown' eyed parent and 1 'blue-green' eyed parent can have a child with any of the possible eye colors.
- 2 'dark brown or black' eyed parents can have a child with any of the possible eye colors (but it is unlikely they will have a light eyed child, such as light blue or blue).
Eye color often appears much lighter at birth and may darken to its true color within 1 to 2 years. Natural variations in human genes also influence eye color. Thus, eye color cannot reliably predict paternity. While an eye color paternity test may offer some clues about paternity, it is not consistent enough for definitive paternity test results.
An IDENTIGENE DNA Paternity Test provides the most commercially reliable results for those with questions only DNA can answer.™ Now available online or at your local pharmacy.
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Of
course, the IDENTIGENE Eye Color and Blood Type Paternity Calculators
do NOT replace a DNA Paternity Test. While eye color and blood type can
be an indicator of paternity, they are not consistent enough to be relied
on for definitive results. An IDENTIGENE DNA Paternity Test provides
the most commercially reliable results for those with questions only
DNA can answer.™ Now
available online or
at your
local pharmacy.
Learn how to use IDENTIGENE's Home Paternity Test kit with this short video.
how-to questions?
- » How do I use the test?
- » Where do I send my swabs?
- » Why include the mother?
- » What if the father isn't available?
- » When will my results be ready?
- » More frequently asked questions...
helpful links
- » Genetipedia: a resource for understanding DNA testing
- » Legal? Personal? Selecting a DNA test
- » Paternity testing forum
- » FREE Eye Color Paternity Test (online)
- » FREE Blood Type Paternity Test (online)
- » Contact Us
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