italian genetics

[HereToLearn]

Italians can look like many nationalities but a Balkan look (not necessarily only Greek) is more common than an Iberian look.

I'm not sure honestly. It depends where in the Balkans probably. I think N. Italians have their unique look overall, and in my opinion they tend to have slightly more overlap with the countries their region of origin borders with.

 

[torzio]

at moesan

read the internet, there is only one way your eye colour is as you stated compared to your parents
as i stated, Directly from your parents and NOT your ancestors

 

[Vallicanus]

read the internet, there is only one way your eye colour is as you stated compared to your parents
as i stated, Directly from your parents and NOT your ancestors

Facepalm moment.
Your parents count as ancestors too.

 

[MOESAN]

at moesan

read the internet, there is only one way your eye colour is as you stated compared to your parents
as i stated, Directly from your parents and NOT your ancestors

Maybe I didn't understand what you are trying to explain?
YOur direct parents, dad and mum, passed to you the half of their own parents, so an ancestral heritage. If you try to say that the genetic basis of your eyes colour is the result of what every parent gave to you, you are right. Evidently we cannot keep all the genes of our grand-parents (mitose)! Our eye colour, AT FIRST SIGHT, isn't a combination of all the ancestral genes
dedicated to eye colour, sure. But our parents didn't created their genetic supports out of the air!
and the eye colour is not always the result of only a pair of biallelic elements; others pairs can come in play, which complicate sometimes the result.
I know the autosomeDNA is a more complete reflect of on whole ancestry, when our eyes colour is based on a narrow selection of some diverses possibilities; but it's the case of a lot of simple traits.
In short, I know my grand-parents and my earlier ancestors didn't come to give me their genes to be sure I should not loose one of them !

 

[MOESAN]

So in a stable human group, if an eye colour dominate statistically, the chances to have children of this eye colour is big, because you have more chances to mate with one presenting this colour; it's valuable when you don't try to select a partner only for his/her eye colour.
At the opposite, if the most of Portugueses decide to marry only blue eyes other Portugueses, after some generations the % of blue eyed Portugueses will increase - in theory. But the bad chanced ones will not decide to stay unmarried, so...