That's interesting, I hadn't heard of the Blue Morgans. I'm not sure it explains how it happened in my case (my extended family is anything but insular. I sometimes wonder how my ancestors got so far around and what commpelled them to travel halfway around the world in different directions just to get a girl.) but it's still kind of fascinating. I heard of another genetic thing like that which a family in Italy had which prevented their arteries getting clogged by cholesterol. Their currently getting studied by scientist in the hope that some sort of serum could be developed which would clean the arteries.werepossum said:There are mountain people in Tennessee known as "blue Morgans", one particular extended family who are almost all blue at birth, some of whom remain bluish to a few deep indigo blues their whole lives. They've been studied (I read about it in a magazine, never knew any personally) and it comes from a double-recessive gene in that family, something to do with the red blood cells. Since their communities were so insular and isolated, they almost always married someone at least fourth cousin kin or closer, so the double recessive got quite common. Now with more contact and more mobility almost none of them marry kin so the blue Morgans are becoming extinct, just a few of the older ones left.Khedive Rex said:I was born bright blue. It faded away but for about 15 minutes at the begining of my life I was a deep azure blue. Mix that with a love for the planet Neptune I've always had for no reason and ... honestly I'm not sure what that makes.
Oh and my head can grow any and all types of hair. It tends to even out as brownish and wavy but the strands themselves can be any color (black, brown, red, blonde, gray, ect.) and any style (straight, wavy, curly, frizzy, ect.) and can even change mid-strand (from black, wiry and wavy to blonde, thin and straight mid-hair).
My beard grew in different colors, from brown like my hair through a couple shades of red. I liked it, but the red turned to gray fastest.
In my case they say the blueness was from minor oxygen deprivation. Apparently I was getting choked coming out or something.