Editing Green (section)

=== Green eyes ===
{{Main|Eye color#Green}}There is no green pigment in green eyes; like the color of blue eyes, it is an optical illusion; its appearance is caused by the combination of an amber or light brown pigmentation of the [[Stroma of cornea|stroma]], given by a low or moderate concentration of [[melanin]], with the blue tone imparted by the [[Rayleigh scattering]] of the reflected light.<ref>
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Nobody is brought into the world with green eyes. An infant has one of two eye hues: dark or blue. Following birth, cells called melanocytes start to discharge melanin, the earthy colored shade, in the child's irises. This begins happening since melanocytes respond to light in time.<ref>
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Green eyes are most common in [[Northern Europe|Northern]] and [[Central Europe]].<ref>
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 |title=Why do Europeans have so many hair and eye colors?
 |website=Cogweb.ucla.edu
 |publisher=[[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]]
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 |access-date=23 December 2011
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They can also be found in [[Southern Europe]], [[West Asia]], [[Central Asia]], and [[South Asia]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} In [[Iceland]], 89% of women and 87% of men have either blue or green eye color.<ref name=Rafnsson>
{{cite journal
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 |year=2004
 |title=Risk factors for malignant melanoma in an Icelandic population sample
 |journal=Prev Med
 |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=247–52
 |pmid=15226032 |doi=10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.03.027
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</ref>
A study of Icelandic and Dutch adults found green eyes to be much more prevalent in women than in men.<ref>
{{cite journal
 |first1=Patrick  |last1=Sulem       |first2=Daniel F.   |last2=Gudbjartsson
 |first3=Simon N. |last3= Stacey     |first4=Agnar       |last4=Helgason
 |first5= Thorunn |last5=Rafnar      |first6=Kristinn P. |last6=Magnusson
 |display-authors=etal
 |date=December 2007
 |title=Genetic determinants of hair, eye, and skin pigmentation in Europeans
 |journal=Nature Genetics
 |volume=39  |issue=12 |pages=1443–1452
 |doi=10.1038/ng.2007.13
 |pmid=17952075 |s2cid=19313549 |url=https://uni.hi.is/apalsson/files/2011/10/PM_NG07.pdf
 |via=Anar Palsson / Háskóli Íslands ([[University of Iceland]] – uni.hi.is)
 |access-date=7 August 2012
}}
</ref>