What do you guys make out of this. This is about recessive traits.?

Question:Ok i'm asian, filipino with spanish or european ancestry possibly.

You can tell when you look at me. When i was looking at my face in the mirror the other day i look at my facial hair and while i'm looking at my chin facial hair i see one thread of blond.

What do you guys make out of this? Is it a really rare spout of my recessive trait?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Ok i'm asian, filipino with spanish or european ancestry possibly.

You can tell when you look at me. When i was looking at my face in the mirror the other day i look at my facial hair and while i'm looking at my chin facial hair i see one thread of blond.

What do you guys make out of this? Is it a really rare spout of my recessive trait?

You made me smile. My fiance does the same thing. He used to be really blond, but now he has light brown hair. He has a goatee, but it's darker than the rest of his hair. He has a couple of ginger hairs in hs beard, but although we don't know his father, we are assuming this comes from his side of the family.

A trait can be carried through the generations for 100s of years without ever showing up. My great grandfather looked very Spanish, but his parents were both blond. His kids were blond too, and their kids (my mum and aunts). But when my generation was born, a cousin was born with very Spanish characteristics. This can also happen in different ethnicities. I've seen fair skinned children born into black families. The parents get taunted because people think they adopted and are passing the child off as theirs, but it's just a trait that's randomly come out in their child.

If you'd like to know more about your blond hair though, perhaps you could look into DNA testing.

I would call it proof that every person is truly a mosaic - meaning that we have different genes expressing themselves in different parts of our bodies. I don't know, it's kind of hard to explain - if you look for something about the genetics of calico cats that will probably explain it best (if you can get over that this example is only in females, it's just the most blatant example of mosaicism...)

recessive trait doesn't apear at all. When you display any character form both partents you have codominance. If it was recessive trait it would hide totally. Codominance mostly hapen in cellular level not on tissue level. Intresting issue.

It just means someone was creeping down the line somewhere. Its all good. Go forth and prosper. Spread your seed of life far and wide.

. As Shakespear would say; "One blond hair does not an Adonis make".
Each hair has it's own factory. That hair just ran out of Black coloring.

This is really not the place for this. You have asked a genetics question and this is the genealogy forum. They are not the same thing.

Genealogy is a HISTORICAL body of research of one's deceased ancestors and uses HISTORICAL documents such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, tax records, land records, court records, church records, wills and probate records, etc., to back up and document our research, and anyone can do it if they work at it.

Genetics is a SCIENCE that requires years of college and specialized training to do, and uses SCIENTIFIC methods and experiments to prove or disprove theory or to show cause and effect. Research is done in a lab, not in the records basement of court houses and churches.

Genealogists are not geneticists. You would have better luck asking this question in a more appropriate category where more people who specialize in the subject would be looking for questions. They are not likely to be looking in the genealogy forum for genetic questions to read. Only people who don't know the difference will be looking in genealogy for it, and that being the case, I would not trust their answers. Think about it..........in school would you be more likely to go to your history teacher or science teacher about a science question? Same thing here. You have basically done the equivalent of asking history teachers to answer a science question. And........for those who cite their highschool science class as their source of information.......I would hardly take advice of something of the complex nature of genetics from a highschool kid.

Nah, I doubt it.

I'd say the cells that produce that hair have been damaged.

If you freeze brand horses the hair forever grows white in those spots.

Anyway, genealogists are not the best folk to ask, the science dudes may be more helpful.