I found an interesting post on today explaining the genetic properties of eye color. The article describes how eye color is a polygenetic trait (i.e. more than one gene involved) and of the genes involved one particular gene, OCA2, has more of an influence than the rest.
Its a brief article but I thought it would be useful as it has some jargon that is commonly used in biology and bioinformatics.
Key Terms: single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), gene expression [Wikipedia]
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