color blindness (dyschromatopsia) by: alex, carly, and kerry mrs. g-m p.4 feb 2011
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Color Blindness(Dyschromatopsia)
By: Alex, Carly, and KerryMrs. G-M
P.4Feb 2011
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How is the disorder/condition inherited? Who can be a carrier?
•Color Blindness is an X-linked, recessive disorder•Almost always occurs in males with disease•Females can be carriers because they have two X chromosomes, but males either have it or don’t, because they have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome
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What is the frequency of the disorder/condition?
• Color Blindness is most common in males• About 8% of men and 0.5% of women
experience it
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What are the symptoms/effects & prognosis of someone with this disorder?
• The only symptom that is shown frequently in color blind patients is the not being able to see certain colors (depending on which type of color blindness you have)
• One example of a thing that people with color blindness have to do to cope with their disease is to memorize what order the lights on a traffic light go in.
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(EXAMPLE OF WHAT A RED-GREEN COLORBLIND PERSON WOULD SEE)
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How is the disorder/disease diagnosed?
• In order to diagnose the disease, and which type of color blindness a person has, they take tests like the ones below.
• If a person is color blind to a color, they will not be able to read what number, symbol, etc. that is in a different color
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What is the treatment, if any?
• There is no treatment for color blindness• People with color blindness deal with their
disease because they have never had normal vision before
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Is there a cure? If so, what is it? If not, what progress are scientists making toward
finding a cure?
• Color Blindness is not curable• You can test for color blindness while the baby
is not born but it can’t be treated after that
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What are the different types of Color Blindness
• Dichromasy- Black and white vision; very rare• Red-green color blindness-inabitily to
distinguish red and green• Deuteranopia- *A type* of altered vision with
a confusion of greens and reds• Protanopia –The inability to see all four
primary colors rather limited to seeing blue and yellow
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