The DNA of eye color Kettering professor Dr. Montserrat Rabago-
Smith and student Desiree White unravel the latest DNA research
of eye color to find it is not as simple as Mendel thought.
Contrary to popular belief, that brown eyed child of blue eyed
parents is not related to the milkman. Recent genetic research
is proving that parents with blue eyes can have a brown eyed
child. Dr. Montserrat Rabago-Smith and Kettering University
senior Desiree White, of Attica, reviewed the latest scientific
research literature and co-authored an article for the peer-
reviewed Journal of Human Genetics, a publication of the Nature
Publishing Group. “The brown-eyed gene is dominant generally,
that is why it is strange to see brown eyed children coming from
blue eyed parents,” said Rabago-Smith. “We (the scientific
community) are beginning to understand there are many factors
that control eye color, it is not as simple a process as Mendel
thought,” she said. White, who is interested in the genetics of
eye color, researched the