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by Anonymous on July 5th, 2006

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I am a white male (England) and my wife is Colombian (half white Spanish, half dark Mestizo). She is darker like her father. Which genes will likely be dominant when we have our child? Will our child likely be darker like my wife or lighter like me?

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on July 28th, 2006

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    It is entirely chance. The child will most probably be somewhere half way between your two skin colours - but it could be close to either of you or even (unlikely but possible) lighter than you or darker than her. Don't go rushing about having DNA tsts even if the child's colour is near one extreme - and remember that children are naturally ligher skinned than they will become as adults.

    How does this work? Well, here's a sort of approximation. There are a number of different genes which darken the skin, and they tend to add up. Suppose there are ten of them, and you have two, which makes you pretty light skinned, and your wife has six, which makes her darkish. And let us assume there is no overlap - the two you have are different from the six she has out of the ten possibles. The average you would expect by chance is that your child has four of them (half way between your two genomes), making him or her a middling sort of colour. But the child could inherit none of them at all, and be even lighter than you - or it could inherit all eight of them, and be even darker than your wife.

    Not that it should matter at all. I find it really hard to understand what all the fuss us about skin colour; I can appreciate every different skin colour I have ever encountered if the person inside the skin is nice.

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  • by UltimateFighter on July 6th, 2006

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    it would be more likely to be lighter but if u think its not your when she has it get a DNA test

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  • by -O-uknow on May 19th, 2007

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    Light w/brown stripes.

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  • by Starmaster on May 19th, 2007

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    That kind of combination is very common here in Puerto Rico. I have seen brothers and sisters from the same mother and father...one is very white with light brown, almost blond hair, the other quite dark with black hair. There is no way to tell.

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  • by Tressie on September 10th, 2010

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    Im white and my husband is colombian and we have two boys..My oldest has blue eyes dark brown hair and prety tan skin(Compared to me at least) and my other son has white coplection like me and dark brown hair although it is a lighter brown than my oldest and brown green eyes. They are a bunch of cuties! But I am american not English although on my dads and moms side I have a ton of English.

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