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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 1304474" data-attributes="member: 115">Sorry, I posted that in haste and excitement.  Albinos do indeed have pink irises.   There are two-ish genes that affect non-albino eye color - one affects whether or not you get brown pigment, the other affects what kind or how much - I'm nto sure which. I say two-ish because in reality eye color is pretty poorly understood.  There are probably two sets of pigments you get in some degree.  Everyone (except albinos) gets an amount of bluish pigment - a lesser amount probably adds a bit more grey to the eyes.  Some people also get a brown-ish pigment, resulting in something between green and dark brown.  Personally I'm not sure where green comes from, I'll have to do some reasearch... my interest has been piqued.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>