Discover how your eye color genetically determines pain sensitivity, why dark eyes handle pain better, and what this means ...

The Liqian people live in Yongchang county in the Gansu province of northwest China, notes a June 2007 study in the Journal of Human Genetics ... Wong says "hazel eyes are thought to be the ...

A person’s eye color depends on how much of a pigment called melanin is stored in the front layers of the iris, the structure surrounding the pupil. Specialized cells called melanocytes produce ...

While genetics play a role in all of the above ... About 18% of Americans have hazel eyes, compared with about 5% of the world’s population. And while violet eyes are a rarity, they’re ...

The complex genetics of eye color lends itself to any ... Your newborn might arrive with brown, green, or hazel eyes instead.

To help lay out the details of this genetic marvel, Fox News Digital spoke to a genetics expert about the topic. "Your eye color is like your fingerprint. Nobody else in the world has the exact ...