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What is responsible for the variations in human eye color?
Dec 22 2006, Irani

The genetics behind human eye color have always intrigued scientists. And, eventually they made a breakthrough in understanding them! Amazingly, its just a few “letters” out of the six billion making up the genetic code are responsible for most of...

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