What color are your eyes?

[Jeannine]

I'm conducting a survey to find out the eye color and ancestry of people diagnosed with Emphysema, Alpha1, Asthma, or Chronic Bronchitis:

I suspect that many of us have fallen victim to our genes.

I spoke with a researcher at University of South Carolina last year because they were giving free Alpha1 testing as part of a research project. The researcher told me that the largest group of people with Alpha1 in the US are in Minnesota and Wisconsin which we all know is heavily Scandinavian. I have located DNA testing on my family names and most originated in Scotland, Ireland, Norway and Denmark.

If anyone is interested in sharing these statistics, it would be appreciated.
If you aren't sure where your ancestors orignated, you might want to check out http://www.ysearch.org and type in your family names and see where they might have orignated hundreds of years ago.

[stemcellpioneers]

you can post a poll. This way you won't have to keep track of a count.
Blue
Green
Red
Purple
Brown
Pink
Is that what you are looking for?
Or are you looking for
Blue/alpha1
Blue/Emphysema
Blue/Chronic Bronchitis
Blue/Asthma
Red/Alpha1
etc
Let me know and I can teach you how to set up your poll.

[linda/mi]

My eyes are brown. I'm an Alpha. I think my grandmothers was blue. Also may have been an alpha. I'd also like to know more about this family tree DNA. My daughters many great grandfather was Alexander Hamilton. Her grandmother has pictures of him. I think there is also pictures of his Mother. We are going to have copies made.

[lraynak]

Jeannine,
My eyes are blue. My grandparents migrated from Hungary in the 1890's.

[dsigler924]

Jeannine,

Hazel, 50% Italian, 25% Slavic, 25% ???

Dave

[Jeannine]

Hi Dave

I'm glad you're on our forum. Dave is a forum Efforts member who left Efforts in frustration last year. I'v known Dave for quite some time now. We met on Efforts and realized we live less than 5 miles from each other.

Welcome!!

[lraynak]

Glad you joined the forum. Maybe we'll be a bit more open to getting to a better outcome with this disease. Yea for stem cells with little "efforts"

[barbara]

Welcome Dave, I am glad you decided to join this great forum that is not intended to frustrate you or censor your opinions. I hope you will let others know about it, so we can get some good information out to everyone about stem cell therapy. I continue to improve daily after having therapy on April 5. I see you posted late last night. I'm a night owl too, although if you live near Jeannine, maybe the time reflects Denver time on the post. I don't know and I am not going to use any of the little gray cells up worrying about it.

[John]

John, German, Swiss, Hazel eyes.....did you want to know about my rippling biceps?
John

[barbara]

Did you mean rumpled?

[Jancy]

Jeannine

My eyes are blue and almost all of extended familys eyes were blue. Grandparents on mothers side migrated from Hungary and Czech Republic. On fathers side from Wales and Ireland. They say variety is the spice of life. They say I was spicy alright. Hummm, wonder how they meant that. LOL.

[Pat S]

Hate to detract the emphasis from biceps -- especially yours, John! -- but, my eyes are brown. I have E, my dad also had E -- I'm non-Alpha and suspect Dad was also as he was in his late 60's when diagnosed with mild E. Dad hales from Scotland, Ireland, England. Mom doesn't have COPD although in the past she used to catch colds that turned nasty on her. Seems to have improved, though. Finally built up her resistance!!

I got carried away with geneology, etc., and totally forgot about eye color. My dad's eyes were hazel/green and Mom's are brown.

[kathy]

LOL John always brings on a smile;) or two...

My eyes are Blue, Sisters was Green, Brothers is Green and Grandfather (mothers dad) with emphysema not sure of his eye color. Mother had terrible bouts of Broncitus (she didn't smoke) quit often and she she had Green eyes. Perhaps we got our weak lungs on mama's side???? Anyways our origin was of Grerman on both mother and father side, Irish on Daddy's side and Native American on mama's.

[nelo100]

I have green eyes, and am second generation American, beyond that all Scots on both mother and father family. Nelson

[Vic]

Hazel, 25% Czech, 25% Austrian, 50% Scotch -- Vic

[barbara]

Welcome Vic, Thanks for becoming a member!!!

[Nancy]

I've been diagnosed with severe emphysema. My eye color is either grey-green or green -grey depending on the light.My mother was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and my dads' family were of English desent with some Scots and Anglo-Irish sprinkled in.

[barbara]

I think Jeannine is recruiting up in New Hampshire. I believe you are the third member from there. Wait until the Texas members notice. They always want to outdo the rest of us. I guess this is a challenge I am proposing to them. Seriously, it doesn't matter where you're from, we are glad to have everyone share their information, questions and answers.

[lungsrus]

Hazel,Ireland,and germany

[rosech44]

Blue---German---Irish

[Anastasia]

Green. He's a Scot through and through. All 4 of his grandparents were born in Scotland around the time they were painting themselves blue!;)

[Jeannine]

Anastasia

Well I am descendant of the Johnston clan from Scotland and I have Wallace in me too. I think the lousy lungs come from our Viking ancestors. I believe many Scots have Viking in them.

[Anastasia]

They do. But here is an interesting twist...Nelson's family is Jewish... we don't know if they migrated to Scotland before or after the family became Jewish...but the paternal side has lung problems! Frankly, I think all COPD is rooted in a genetic problem. Not every smoker gets COPD. My father also smoked like a Chinese Chimney and he had a smoker's cough you wouldn't believe. But no SOB, or any of the other problems of lung disease. His ethnicity was Dutch and Welsh. Smoking did indeed kill him, but it was throat cancer that did him in. My mother is Ukrainian and German, so I am quite a mutt myself. I can report no lung problems despite being an SCC (Smoking Chinese Chimney) myself for 45 years. Go figure!

[Vic]

It's funny that you brought up the Scottish connection...I was wondering about that a few days ago after seeing the great amount of Scottish ancestry who posted in this thread. Two of my maternal uncles (100% Scotch) also died from E. I'm only 50% Scotch, but I got it too. There's too much here for it not have a bearing. -- Vic

Edit: BTW, Scotland has one of the highest COPD rates in the world...I never linked it since I credited it to all the coal miners there...now I have to rethink that.

[lungsrus]

I have hazel eyes. on my farthers side.and my great,and grandfarthers side we are Irish.

[viv1314]

Blue/Alpha One
Maternal Grandparents Both German
Paternal Grandfather German
Paternal Grandmother English

[Joy]

Blue/all blue eyes both mother and father's side. Half Irish, half Russian/Hungarian or something like that. I have Irish charasterics. It's beginning to look a lot lijke Irish/
scottish/English [Vikings?] have a genetic predisposition to the big "E".
Joy

[debrat]

I'm conducting a survey to find out the eye color and ancestry of people diagnosed with Emphysema, Alpha1, Asthma, or Chronic Bronchitis:

I suspect that many of us have fallen victim to our genes.

I spoke with a researcher at University of South Carolina last year because they were giving free Alpha1 testing as part of a research project. The researcher told me that the largest group of people with Alpha1 in the US are in Minnesota and Wisconsin which we all know is heavily Scandinavian. I have located DNA testing on my family names and most originated in Scotland, Ireland, Norway and Denmark.

If anyone is interested in sharing these statistics, it would be appreciated.
If you aren't sure where your ancestors orignated, you might want to check out http://www.ysearch.org and type in your family names and see where they might have orignated hundreds of years ago.

The color of my eyes are blue. I have Emphysema

[debrat]

My color is blue and I have Emphysema. Hope this helps:)

[zar]

Colour of eyes=Same like "FRANKS" blue,cant croon like him though.One of my ancestors was "Bold Robert" the rebel against the goverment of Ireland.When my Grandmother was alive,IF I was in trouble(quite often)she would call me Robert(not my name).Maybe the rebel is in the blood,one thing, I wont finish my days like him.As the Judge put it,he was hung by the neck untill he was dead(age25).Sorry Vic,the closest I get to 100%Scotch is in a glass with ice;)I have emphysema.ZAR

[Jeannine]

Zar
The Scots and the Irish share identical DNA in terms of thousands of years they were descended from the same people.

I believe the genes for emphysema come from the Viking ancestors who invaded the British Isles

[laraephenix]

Hi ....My eyes are brown....German...both sides of family...emigrated from Russia....emphysema

[Jody]

Green/hazel. Scots/Irish and Cherokee.

[Mysty119]

I have E. My eyes are hazel. My mom's eyes were a gorgeous blue and she claimed to be Dutch and English. She died from Parkinson's disease. My dad's eyes were brown and not sure of his ancestry. He died from cancer of the bone marrow. (he was a smoker for 40 years).

[Howard]

Eyes: Brown
Maternal: Scots/Irish, mtDNA Haplogroup K
Paternal: German, Y-DNA Haplogroup R1b
Diagnosis: COPD