Color Blindness is defined as the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under normal lighting conditions. Color blindness is also referred to as color vision deficiency. In the United States alone there are about three million cases noted per year for color blindness. This disorder seems to affect men more than it does women. It is estimated that around eight percent of males and a little less than one percent of females are diagnosed in the United States. This disorder can last for years or it can be life-long. This condition is often times inherited and can be caused by other conditions or diseases. If the disorder is inherited then it is not treatable but if caused by another condition, then
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This common form of color blindness is an X-linked recessive gene. The chromosomes given from your mother in your DNA are both X-linked and are most commonly inherited from your mother. If this is the case then it is possible that your mother might have a good chance of having color blindness herself in some form or another. If your father has the X-linked gene then it is passed down and inherited by the daughter not the son because a son cannot inherit X-linked information from his father. If a daughter gets an X-linked gene for color blindness from both her mother and father then she will not only inherit the disorder but also be a carrier of the disorder as well. Women only experience the same type of vision in color loss as men do when both X-linked genes are inherited to them. This is the reason why more men are diagnosed with this disorder then females are. There is not a cure for color blindness in medicine in our world today. Even though there is not a cure there have been labs that have cured it in monkeys and hope to one day make it safe enough for humans in order to cure the disorder. There are other things you can do to help your vision with color blindness such as contacts. The problem with things such as contacts are that although it may help you see the colors you are color blind to they may also make other colors more difficult to
This common form of color blindness is an X-linked recessive gene. The chromosomes given from your mother in your DNA are both X-linked and are most commonly inherited from your mother. If this is the case then it is possible that your mother might have a good chance of having color blindness herself in some form or another. If your father has the X-linked gene then it is passed down and inherited by the daughter not the son because a son cannot inherit X-linked information from his father. If a daughter gets an X-linked gene for color blindness from both her mother and father then she will not only inherit the disorder but also be a carrier of the disorder as well. Women only experience the same type of vision in color loss as men do when both X-linked genes are inherited to them. This is the reason why more men are diagnosed with this disorder then females are. There is not a cure for color blindness in medicine in our world today. Even though there is not a cure there have been labs that have cured it in monkeys and hope to one day make it safe enough for humans in order to cure the disorder. There are other things you can do to help your vision with color blindness such as contacts. The problem with things such as contacts are that although it may help you see the colors you are color blind to they may also make other colors more difficult to