how rare is it to have blue eyes and red hair?
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The combination of having both red hair and blue eyes is so rare because blue eye color is also a recessive trait, meaning both parents must carry the gene for a child to have it. Red hair occurs naturally in one to two percent of the human population, while just 17 percent of the world's population has blue eyes.
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Well, that's about 1 in 3 so it's quite common. I have brown hair and blue eyes. ... Both brown hair and blue eyes are very common among white people so the brown hair/blue eyes combination is NOT rare. It's actually very common.
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['Red hair is a beautiful genetic mutation. ... ', "Less than 2% of the world's population have red hair. ... ", 'Red hair can occur in any ethnicity. ... ', 'Lucky redhead women have more sex. ... ', "It's a ballache to dye red hair. ... ", 'Red hair is thicker than other colours.']
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1 The evidence suggests that all people with blue eyes carry this same variant. So the parts of the world where descendants of that founder individual are most common have the highest frequency of blue eyes; where those descendants are rare, darker eye colors are the dominant eye color.
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Unfortunately, there is no eye color that has been fully agreed upon as the rarest, though green-eyed and amber-eyed people are both extremely rare. In fact, the rarest eye color is different in different geographical locations. In some parts of the world, green eyes are rarer than amber eyes or vice versa.
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However, unlike kitties, heterochromia is much more rare in humans, occurring in just 1 in 1000 people. Heterochromia in humans is often called Cat Eye. The cat breeds that are most prone to odd eye are: Persian.
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Since there are 7-8% of people worldwide with blue eyes, the percentage with blue eyes and brown hair should be somewhere in the low single digits, maybe 3-5%. Now, blue eyes with raven black hair, that might possibly be rare...
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Less than 1 percent of people have gray eyes. Gray eyes are very rare. Gray eyes are most common in Northern and Eastern Europe. Scientists think gray eyes have even less melanin than blue eyes.
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Heterochromia is fairly uncommon, occurring in less than 1 percent of the population. ... Complete Heterochromia - each eye is a distinctly different color, such as one blue eye and one brown eye. Central Heterochromia - the eyes show multiple colors, such as a blue iris with a brown ring around the pupil.
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Less than 2% of the world's population have red hair That's approximately 140 million people. Scotland boasts the highest percentage of natural redheads, with 13% (40% might carry the gene there) while Ireland comes in second with 10%.
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Red hair (or ginger hair) occurs naturally in one to two percent of the human population, appearing with greater frequency (two to six percent) among people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations.
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The child may get two dominant alleles from the parents, one dominant one recessive or two recessive alleles. ... Since blue is recessive and there is no dominant allele, the child will have blue eyes. The child will have green eyes if it receives green alleles from both the parents or one green and one blue allele.
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According to new research, people with blue eyes are apparently the most attractive. ... "Many studies have been performed and they all concluded the same thing - a majority of all people consider those with blue eyes to be slightly more attractive on average than people with brown or hazel eyes."
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It's the opposite of a heterozygous genotype, where the alleles are different. People who have recessive traits, like blue eyes or red hair, are always homozygous for that gene. The recessive allele is expressed because there isn't a dominant one to mask it.
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Wales has the second highest proportion of red hair gene carriers next to South East Scotland. ... To have red headed children both parents must carry the recessive MC1R gene, but even then there is only a 25% their child will be red haired.
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However, hazel is definitely one of the rarer eye colors. It's estimated that only about 5% of the population has hazel eyes. Brown is the most common eye color, and roughly 55% to 80% of the population has brown eyes.
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['An extra rib is a rare body feature you might not even notice. ... ', 'Having different colored eyes is a rare body feature amongst humans. ... ', 'Not many have the rare body feature red hair. ... ', 'Gray eyes are a super rare body feature.']