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Is blue eyes a birth defect?

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Ordinary eyecolor? No. Blue eyes result from having two copies of the blue eye color gene, one from each parent. Since the blue-eye gene is recessive, one MUST have two copies. Someone with one blue-eye gene and one brown-eye gene will be brown-eyed.

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