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February 01, 2008
Don't it make my brown eyes blue
How one ancestor helped turn our brown eyes blueBy Steve Connor, Science Editor
Thursday, 31 January 2008Everyone with blue eyes alive today – from Angelina Jolie to Wayne Rooney – can trace their ancestry back to one person who probably lived about 10,000 years ago in the Black Sea region, a study has found.
Scientists studying the genetics of eye colour have discovered that more than 99.5 per cent of blue-eyed people who volunteered to have their DNA analysed have the same tiny mutation in the gene that determines the colour of the iris.
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