and carotenoids. Humans and other animals have many phenotypic variations in eye color. Mammals are born with blue eyes and all variations in darkening develop after birth.

The genetics and inheritance of eye color in humans is complicated. as of 2010, as many as 16 genes have been associated with human eye color inheritance. Some of the eye-color genes include OCA2 and HERC2.

Genetic determination

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