I will be the first to admit that my husband and I are pretty geeky when it comes to things like science and math. So when we dove head first into the gene pool of having children, we had no idea what we could expect. Would our baby look just like my husband who looked identical to his father and brother? Or would our baby look like a combination of us? Or neither?
The truth is that even after having eight kids, we got a crazy mixture of genetics that could only leaving us laughing and scratching our heads. So when we stumbled across the genetics program called 23 and Me, we were intrigued. You submit your DNA samples and they give you a bunch of data. The reports are fairly overwhelming if you're new to genetics, but there were a couple of really fun tools for parents-to-be, including the ability to link our profiles and to see what the statistical likelihood was that our kids would have a given number of genetic traits given our actual DNA, not just photos or reports. What you see above is what it said our chances were in the field of eye color. Now, here's our break down for eight kids:
- green hazel
- green hazel
- brown
- blue
- honey hazel
- honey hazel
- black
- brown hazel
Pretty neat trick huh? So, this is obviously not something that will appeal to most people. Many are happy with using other programs that combine photos or let you fill out profiles. If you're using one of those type services, tell me which ones and why in the comments. If you've already had your baby, how well did it work for you?
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Who will your baby look like? originally appeared on About.com Pregnancy & Childbirth on Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 at 09:35:02.
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