Color Blindness
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- Color blindness is a genetic disease that can be sex-linked or not, but can also come from acquired deficiencies. There are several different varieties of color-blindness, red-g…
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- Red-Green Color Blindness Red-green color-blindness is the most common of the color vision deficiencies. It is also a sex-linked genetic disease, because mostly males are affect…
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- Blue-yellow color vision deficiency Blue-yellow color vision deficiency is not sex-linked, and affects males and females approximately equally. Although much less common than re…
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- Blue cone monochromacy Blue cone monochromacy is much rarer, affecting only 1 in 100,000 people. It is also sex-linked so affects males much more prominently than females. It is…
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- Normally, OPN1LW, OPN1MW, and OPN1SW genes are all not mutated, so the L, M and S cones all work perfectly. When the genes are mutated, the cones function differently or not at …
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