Meet Ben Stacy, the living descendant of the BLUE men of Appalachia - who was born discolored too but grew out of it

• Isolated family in Kentucky started producing blue children in 1800s
• French orphan Martin Fugate married pale American Elizabeth Smith
• Genetic mutation reduces individual’s ability to carry oxygenated blood
• Intermarriage led to 'pure' gene pool which often met 'met-H' gene
• Alaskan Ben Stacy's fingernails & lips sometimes turned blue as child
  

By Mark Duell and Micaela Mclucas

Last updated at 4:24 PM on 23rd February 2012

It wasn’t just Ben Stacy’s astonishing arrival in 1975 as a baby with blue skin that shocked doctors.

The 37-year-old descended from an extraordinary family in Kentucky - and although the colour soon diminished from him, his lips and fingernails still went blue when he became cold or angry as a child.

He came from an isolated family whose members were born with a condition that discoloured them, as a result of a coincidental meeting of recessive genes, intermarriage and inbreeding in the 1800s.

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