Baby babble: Is this what Will-Kat junior will eventually look like?
27 March 2013 7:51 AM IST
Maybe we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves here, but is this what Prince William and Kate Middleton’s grown-up son or daughter will look like?
Nickolay Lamm, from Myvouchercodes.co.uk, and graphic designer Nikolett Mérész have created these images of how the royal baby will look as an adult, based on genetic trends.
They also spoke to Jenny Chen, a graduate student from the Broad Institute of Harvard-MIT, which is dedicated to genetics/genomics research, on what traits the child is likely to inherit from his or her royal parents.
Here comes the science...
Eyes: According to Jenny, it’s 50 per cent likely that he or she will have blue eyes, because as Kate has green eyes she is likely to carry the the brown and blue eye genes. But Will’s eyes are blue. As a result, William will definitely pass on the blue eye gene while Kate could pass on either the blue or brown eye gene. If the baby gets a blue eye gene from both, they will have blue eyes. But if they get one brown eye gene from Kate and and one blue gene from William, brown is dominant so they will have green or brown eyes. Get it?
Hair: Darker hair is dominant so their child is most likely to inherit Kate’s brown hair. Jenny said: ‘There is a 25 per cent chance that Kate is carrying a ‘blond hair’ gene that is being masked by her ‘brown hair’ gene, which gives their children a 12.5 per cent chance of actually being blond/strawberry blond like William.’
Nose: Jenny reckons the baby will have the ‘royal nose’, which three generations of the royals all have, when he or she is born in July.
‘If you look at Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry, you will notice that they all have a very distinct nose shape that is flat at the bridge and a bit hook-shaped,’ she said. ‘This would suggest that this nose shaped is very dominant and that William’s children are likely to have this nose shape, also.’
Exciting stuff, eh?
Nickolay Lamm, from Myvouchercodes.co.uk, and graphic designer Nikolett Mérész have created these images of how the royal baby will look as an adult, based on genetic trends.
They also spoke to Jenny Chen, a graduate student from the Broad Institute of Harvard-MIT, which is dedicated to genetics/genomics research, on what traits the child is likely to inherit from his or her royal parents.
Here comes the science...
Eyes: According to Jenny, it’s 50 per cent likely that he or she will have blue eyes, because as Kate has green eyes she is likely to carry the the brown and blue eye genes. But Will’s eyes are blue. As a result, William will definitely pass on the blue eye gene while Kate could pass on either the blue or brown eye gene. If the baby gets a blue eye gene from both, they will have blue eyes. But if they get one brown eye gene from Kate and and one blue gene from William, brown is dominant so they will have green or brown eyes. Get it?
Hair: Darker hair is dominant so their child is most likely to inherit Kate’s brown hair. Jenny said: ‘There is a 25 per cent chance that Kate is carrying a ‘blond hair’ gene that is being masked by her ‘brown hair’ gene, which gives their children a 12.5 per cent chance of actually being blond/strawberry blond like William.’
Nose: Jenny reckons the baby will have the ‘royal nose’, which three generations of the royals all have, when he or she is born in July.
‘If you look at Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry, you will notice that they all have a very distinct nose shape that is flat at the bridge and a bit hook-shaped,’ she said. ‘This would suggest that this nose shaped is very dominant and that William’s children are likely to have this nose shape, also.’
Exciting stuff, eh?
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