| I have blue eyes and according to the Blue-eyed | | | | well as two blue-eyed individuals to have a |
| Genealogy Study, anyone else who has blue eyes | | | | brown-eyed child. |
| is related to me. The Department of Cellular and | | | | According to the findings of the study, that would |
| Molecular Medicine at the University of | | | | make anyone who marries another person with |
| Copenhagen headed the study that stated in a | | | | blue eyes genetically related. This may cause |
| January 2008 press release, that blue eyes are | | | | someone to question his or her future mate. |
| linked to a genetic mutation that happened | | | | However, according to the Bible, we are all from |
| between 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. The team, | | | | Adam and Eve anyhow, meaning we are all |
| headed by Professor Hans Eiberg, studied 155 | | | | related anyway. |
| individuals out of a Danish family and several | | | | The study also states that in the beginning of |
| blue-eyed people born in Turkey and Jordan. | | | | time there were only brown-eyed people. This |
| According to the study, because 97% of the | | | | study really throws a kink into the Aryan Nations |
| blue-eyed people they tested had the same set | | | | and Nordic mythology idea that the fair-skinned, |
| of 13 SNP mutations in two particular genes in | | | | blonde-haired, and blue eyed individual as being the |
| their chromosome 15, they are all descendants of | | | | superior original race. Could the Blue-eyed |
| one person. The team that claim if the mutation | | | | Genealogy Study effect how the Nordic |
| had happened at random in different populations | | | | communities feel when any of their followers give |
| around the world, the segment of DNA affected | | | | birth to a beautiful brown-eyed baby. Nordicism |
| would have tested differently on the studied | | | | belief is that only white, blonde haired, blued eyed, |
| participants. What this Blue-eyed Genealogy Study | | | | Northern European people are genetically superior |
| is simply saying is that around 6 to 10 thousand | | | | to all other races in the world. Could the study |
| years ago, this mutation happened only once and | | | | change Nordicisms' way of thinking that blue eyes |
| to only one person, who in turn created all the | | | | are a superior genetic trait when in fact they are |
| blue-eyed individuals you see today. | | | | a result of a mutation. |
| The Blue-eyed Genealogy Study can bring up | | | | Green eyes are the rarest of eye colors with |
| concerns for some individual such as paternity. | | | | only 1 to 2% of the world's population having true |
| Couples may question why it is they have given | | | | green eyes but blue eyes according to the |
| birth to a brown eyed child when they were both | | | | American Academy of Ophthalmology are only |
| blue eyed, or visa versa, a couple has brown | | | | present in 32% of the white American population. |
| eyes and bears a blue-eyed child. Rest assured | | | | Regardless if you are blue, brown, green, hazel, or |
| that it does not automatically mean someone was | | | | any other eye color, does not deem one better |
| unfaithful, but it could cause doubt if one did not | | | | then another. According to the Blue-eyed |
| know the basics of DNA and dominant and | | | | Genealogy Study, it is just natural process of |
| recessive genes. It is common for two | | | | nature mixing up the chromosomes and giving us |
| brown-eyed people to have a blue-eyed child as | | | | a bit of a fashion change from time to time. |