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Eye color genetics is complex, with multiple genes from each parent determining a person's eye color. Scientists once believed a single gene controlled eye color, but research shows that more than 50 ...

In the most elementary form, the inheritance of eye color is classified as a Mendelian trait. 1 On the basis of the observation of more than two phenotypes, eye color has a more complex pattern of ...