COLOR

BLINDNESS
BY: Dennis Perdomo
 What is this disorder?
 Is an inability to see the difference between certain colors.
Though many people commonly use the term “color blind” for
this condition, true color blindness.
 What are the characteristics and symptoms?
 Trouble seeing colors and the brightness of color in the usual
way.
 Inability to tell the different between shades of the same or
similar colors.. This happens most with red and green, or blue and
yellow.
 What causes this disorder?
 Color blindness can also happen if your eyes or the part of your
brain that helps you see color gets damaged.

It’s estimated that there are

300 million color blind
people in the world!
 What are the genetic cause?
 Mutation I the OPN1LW, OPN1Mw, and
OON1SW genes cause the forms of color
vision deficiency described above. The proteins
produced from these genes play essential roles
in color vision.
 The two genes that produce red and green
light sensitive proteins are located on the x
chromosome. Mutations I these gene can
cause color blindness. Color blindness is a
common inherited sex-linked disorder that
affects a person’s ability to see or recognize
certain colors.
 Males have only 1 X chromosome, from
their mother. If that X chromosome has the
gene for red-green color blindness(instead of
a normal X chromosome), they will have
red-green color blindness. Female have 2 X
chromosomes one from their mother and one
from their father.
HOW IS IT
INHERITED?
Color blindness is a common
hereditary(inherited) condition
which means it is usually passed
down from your parents.
Red/green color blindness is
passed from mother to son on
the 23rd chromosomes, which is
know as the sex chromosomes
because it also determines sex.
• Autosomal or sex-linked?
• The essence you should know is, that red-green
color blindness is a sex-linked recessive trait and
blue- yellow color blindness is a autosomal
dominant trait.

• Most commonly, color blindness is inherited as a

recessive trait on the X chromosomes. This is know in
genetics as X-linked recessive inheritance. As a result,
the condition tends to affect male more often than
females(8% male, 0.5% female.)

 Most people with color vision deficiency

have difficulty distinguishing between shades
of red, yellow and green. This is know as
“red-green” color vision deficiency it’s a
common problem that affects around 1 in 1
men and 1 in 200 women.
 Most commonly, color blindness is inherited as a recessive
trait on the X chromosome. This is know in genetics as X-
linked recessive inheritance. As a result, the condition tends
to affect males more often than females (8% male, 0.5 %
female)
 Around 1 in 12 men's and 1 in 200

Women’s.
 There are approximately 3 million

Color blind people (4.5% of the

entire population), most of whom
are male.
 Caucasian Boys show highest prevalence of color blindness
among preschoolers.
 There is no known cure for color blindness. Contact lenses and
glasses are available with filters to help color deficiencies, if
needed. Fortunately, the vision of most color-blind people is
normal in all other respects and certain adaptation methods are
all that is required

 Inherited color blindness cannot be prevented. In the case of

some types of acquired color deficiency, if the cause of the
problem is removed, the condition may improve with time. But
for most people with acquired color blindness, the damage is
usually permanent.

 Color blindness does not directly lower life expectancy.

However, it could affect someone by, for example, making
them not able to tell the difference between the red and green
on a stoplight and being killed in an accident.