“At the time,” she says, “I was working on another book. “This seems to be a perfect children’s book.” “I wish I had a big poster of this in my kids’ bedrooms!” When the heart speaks, it’s true and powerful.” “I know this is for children but I think it is for adults too!” I wrote this for myself and my kiddos, and now, I give it to you and yours.”Īlong with the words, she shared a golden-hued illustration that she had created of two children frolicking with foxes, butterflies and stars. “I share my art+life frequently, not my writing. “Well, this feels a bit vulnerable for me,” she wrote in a Facebook post on Nov. “It was a beautiful space,” she says of the property, “and there was all this silence and all this sun.” ‘WILL YOU CARRY THIS LIGHT?’īack home in the happy chaos of family life, the artist returned to social media. The setting might have helped the artist release her creativity: She was in a guest house in the desert of Arizona, the vacation home of an author she had collaborated with on an art book they were promoting. She sums up the poetry-like prose this way: “It’s about being your best self in the world - regardless of how dark and scary or even great the world is to always put our best selves forward and to guide our children to do the same.” “I probably wrote it in 15 minutes,” she says. Thinking of her children and what she wanted them to know, she released the words on the page. As Professor Eiberg says, "it simply shows that nature is constantly shuffling the human genome, creating a genetic cocktail of human chromosomes and trying out different changes as it does so.“I needed a nap,” she says, “but I felt an overwhelming urge to write.”
It is one of several mutations such as hair colour, baldness, freckles and beauty spots, which neither increases nor reduces a human's chance of survival. The mutation of brown eyes to blue represents neither a positive nor a negative mutation. His findings are the latest in a decade of genetic research, which began in 1996, when Professor Eiberg first implicated the OCA2 gene as being responsible for eye colour. Professor Eiberg and his team examined mitochondrial DNA and compared the eye colour of blue-eyed individuals in countries as diverse as Jordan, Denmark and Turkey. "They have all inherited the same switch at exactly the same spot in their DNA." Brown-eyed individuals, by contrast, have considerable individual variation in the area of their DNA that controls melanin production. "From this we can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor," says Professor Eiberg. Variation in the colour of the eyes from brown to green can all be explained by the amount of melanin in the iris, but blue-eyed individuals only have a small degree of variation in the amount of melanin in their eyes.
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If the OCA2 gene had been completely destroyed or turned off, human beings would be without melanin in their hair, eyes or skin colour - a condition known as albinism. The switch's effect on OCA2 is very specific therefore. The "switch," which is located in the gene adjacent to OCA2 does not, however, turn off the gene entirely, but rather limits its action to reducing the production of melanin in the iris - effectively "diluting" brown eyes to blue. "But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a "switch," which literally "turned off" the ability to produce brown eyes." The OCA2 gene codes for the so-called P protein, which is involved in the production of melanin, the pigment that gives colour to our hair, eyes and skin. "Originally, we all had brown eyes," said Professor Hans Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.
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