Are You More Likely To Be R1B If You Have Light Eyes/Light Eyed Family Members?

[MagnusAurelius]

My father is olive skinned with brown eyes as is his father, he is Calabrian. My grandfathers wife is also Calabrian and there are more people with fair-lighter tan skin on her side of the family and some with light eyes and light brown hair, that doesn't matter though, obviously because I am only concerned with my Y-DNA.

Are swarthy people with dark eyes less likely to be Haplogroup R1B?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabria#Population_genetics

33% of Calabria is R1B so I figure that I have a 1/3 chance. I am gonna buy a 23andme test soon but I would like to have some idea of what to expect before hand.

[Lawalye]

Are swarthy people with dark eyes less likely to be Haplogroup R1B?


No, that doesn't change anything.

Haplogroups are interesting to understant the origin of a whole group like a country or a specific region for example, from an individual point of view it doesn't really matter except that you will maybe know the origin of your patrilineal ancestor.

[Petalpusher]

Nothing to do with it. Haplogroups in Calabria :

http://www.eupedia.com/genetics/italian_dna.shtml

You could have any Y-DNA except, statistically I2 which is very low or inexistent in South Italy.

[revealman]

haplogroups have nothing to do with pigmentation you can have a person from russia with haplogroup R pale as snow and one from india with the same haplogroup R dark as chocolate..

left indian with haplogroup R, right russian cossack with same haplogroup!
http://s8.postimg.org/d5m55hesl/slovansky_kozak_a_indicky_muz.png

[Argentano]

my dad is of calabrian ancestry, olive skinned and hazel eyed and he is r1b

[Gaston]

The mutations responsible for light eyes in Europeans (and MENAs and South Asians to a lesser extent) are well known and are not located on the Y chromosome.


This doesn't change the fact that you're very likely R1b-M269 or J2/E1b1b1.

[EuropeanBoy]

I have green eyes :D

[Antimage]

I have green eyes :D

green eye= euro+asian mix

i think you aren't real european

[Caballero]

It depends whether you are autosomally European. More specifically Central European, Western European or Northern European, also adding up at lesser extent Southern European. The original R1b carriers from Sibiria full of ANE were probably swarthoids, something like Arturo Vidal lol.:P

http://www.sport1on1.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Arturo-Vidal-Juventus-Super.jpg

[Black Wolf]

lol.

[Septentrion]

I think that is stupid to think that if you belong to the R1b haplogroup, you are more likely to be light-eyed, nonsense! The majority of Spaniards are R1b, but 75.25% have dark eyes, in Italy 70% have dark eyes. So forget the R1b light eyes connection.

[de Burgh II]

The only good thing about haplogroups is that it only gives you a good idea where your ancestors may have originated from paternally and maternally speaking. Besides this I wouldn't obsess over them.

[sql]

No you are likely an e1b1b Greek