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What nationality has Amber eyes?

My eye color is Amber. The only person on both sides of my family to ever have Amber eyes other than me is my Great Great Grandma. Who weirdly enough, I look almost identical to (Not joking around, almost like I could be her). I was wondering what nationality has Amber eyes. I know I am Norwegian, but I can't find a site that confirms that Norwegians have Amber as a main eye color.

NOTE: If you click on the link, there is a diagram that goes with part titled Genetic Complementation. It's very helpful in giving a better understanding of how eye color develops.

To answer your question directly, many nationalities can have amber eye color as well as any other eye color.

I suppose exceptions to the rule might be (I'm not 100% positive on this) African Americans and the Asian people.

How does eye color work? Eye color comes from a combination of two black and yellow pigments called melanin in the iris of your eye. If you have no melanin in the front part of your iris, you have blue eyes. An increasing proportion of the yellow melanin, in combination with the black melanin, results in shades of colors between brown and blue, including green and hazel.

What we are taught in high school biology is generally true, brown eye genes are dominant over green eye genes which are both dominant over blue eye genes. However, because many genes are required to make each of the yellow and black pigments, there is a way called genetic compensation to get brown or green eyes from blue-eyed parents.

Genetic Complementation
The best way to illustrate how this might happen is with an example. Let's say there is a genetic pathway made up of four genes (cleverly named A, B, C, and D) that are needed to make brown eyes. A mutation in both copies of any one of these genes results in blue eyes (these mutations are denoted with lower case letters, a, b, c, and d).

Now let's say that dad has blue eyes because of a mutation in both his copies of gene A and mom because of a mutation in both her copies of gene D. As I am sure you know, we have two copies of each gene, one from our mom and one from our dad. If either parent gives you a brown version of a gene, it will be dominant over the blue copy.

Let's suppose that mom gives you a brown copy of gene A and dad gives you a brown copy of gene D. What color eyes would you have? Brown. (The same argument works for green eyes as well.)

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=29

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