Sunday, July 18, 2010

What are the chances of having a red-haired baby?

Both my husband and I have red-haired people in our family (his sister, my brother, my great uncle). My older daughter has brown hair and my younger daughter has blonde hair. We all have light-colored eyes (either blue or green in my family.) What are the chances we will produce a red-haired child?
The coloring is due to mutations on a gene known as MC1R.



If both parents have the mutant version of the MC1R gene, then the probability is 25%.
Punnet squares, AWAY!
Since the gene is recessive on both sides, the chances are 1 in 4 of you having a red haired child.
100%. Red hair is a recessive trait, so you and your husband both have fully red-haired genes.
Red hair is passed through parents who carry the recessive gene. It can pop up if its in your family.
Punnet squares! is since math thing very simple that determines what are the possibility that your kid will have blue eyes or what ever, and for you those are very small becouse dont have red hair and your husband docent either,
If you both have at least one parent who is a red heads then you know that you both have the recessive gene and each child will have a 25% chance of being a red head. One of you do not have a red headed parent then while you had 25% chance of getting a recessive red head gene you also had a 25% chance of getting both dominant genes leaving your children with 0 chance of being a red head. In other words you don

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