Editing Eye color (section)

===Green===
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[[File:Greeneyes.jpg|thumb|Green eyes]]
Green eyes probably result from the interaction of multiple allelic variants of ''[[OCA2]]'' and other genes. They may have been present in southern [[Siberia]] during the [[Bronze Age]].<ref name=bronzeage>{{cite journal |last1=Keyser |first1=Christine |last2=Bouakaze |first2=Caroline |last3=Crubézy |first3=Eric |last4=Nikolaev |first4=Valery G. |last5=Montagnon |first5=Daniel |last6=Reis |first6=Tatiana |last7=Ludes |first7=Bertrand |year=2009 |title=Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the History of South Siberian Kurgan People |journal=Human Genetics |volume=126 |issue=3 |pages=395–410 |doi=10.1007/s00439-009-0683-0 |pmid=19449030 |s2cid=21347353 |quote=Indeed, among the SNPs tested was rs12913832, a single DNA variation within a regulatory element of HERC2 gene which is associated to blue eye color in humans. This polymorphism, together with the diplotypes obtained from variations of the OCA2 locus (major contributor to the human eye color variation) showed that at least 60% of the ancient Siberian specimens under study had blue (or green) eyes.}}</ref>

Green eyes are most common in [[Northern Europe|Northern]], [[Western Europe|Western]], and [[Central Europe]].<ref>[http://www.eyedoctorguide.com/eye_general/eye_color.html Blue Eyes Versus Brown Eyes: A Primer on Eye Color] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017164118/http://www.eyedoctorguide.com/eye_general/eye_color.html |date=17 October 2008 }}. Eyedoctorguide.com. Retrieved on 23 December 2011.</ref><ref>[http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Frost_06.html Why Do Europeans Have So Many Hair and Eye Colors?]. Cogweb.ucla.edu. Retrieved on 23 December 2011.</ref> Around 8–10% of men and 18–21% of women in [[Iceland]] and 6% of men and 17% of women in the [[Netherlands]] have green eyes.<ref name="sulem">{{cite journal |last1=Sulem|first1=P.|last2= Gudbjartsson|first2=D. |display-authors=et al.|title=Genetic determinants of hair, eye and skin pigmentation in Europeans |journal=Nature Genetics |year=2007 |volume=39 |issue=12 |pages=1443–1452 |doi=10.1038/ng.2007.13 |pmid=17952075 |s2cid=19313549 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5893814 |access-date=21 February 2022}}</ref> Among [[European Americans]], green eyes are most common among those of recent [[Celts (modern)|Celtic]] and [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] ancestry, occurring in about 16% of people with those backgrounds.<ref name=sulem/>

The green color is caused by the combination of: 1) an amber or light brown pigmentation in the stroma of the iris (which has a low or moderate concentration of melanin), and 2) a blue shade created by the Rayleigh scattering of reflected light.<ref name="Fox"/> Green eyes contain the yellowish pigment [[lipochrome]].<ref>[http://allaboutgenes.weebly.com/oca2.html "OCA2: The Gene for Color"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006151409/http://allaboutgenes.weebly.com/oca2.html |date=6 October 2016 }}. allaboutgenes.weebly.com. Retrieved on 8 September 2016.</ref>
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