Red-Green Color Blindness inheritance patterns explained

With the knowledge of the last two chapters on what color blindness really is and the different types of color blindness, we can put together the following list of facts about red-green color blindness: Facts on Red-Green Color Blindness Red-green color blindness is a generic term for protanopia (red-blindness), protanomaly (red-weakness), deuteranopia (green-blindness), and deuteranomaly (green-weakness). More than 99% of all color blind people are suffering from a red-green color vision deficiency. About 8% of all men and 0.5% of all women are suffering from it. Any severity starting from slightly over moderately, strongly or absolutely is possible. Red-green color blindness is a recessive, sex linked trait (encoded on the X chromosome). This results in much more men to suffer from it than women. It is usually inherited from a grandfather to his grandson, with the mother in between acting as the carrier of the disease. Not only red and green can’t be distinguished, but the whole color spectrum is affected by color blindness. Unfortunately many people don’t even know one of those seven basic facts on red-green color blindness. This often causes a lot of confusion and many misunderstandings related to this term. #RedGreenColorBlindness #Genetics #geneticDisorder #mutation #geneticDisease #xchromosome #recessiveGeneticDisorder #NikolaysGeneticsLessons #redgreenColorBlindness #Hemophilia #physiology #biology #ColorBlindness #visionDeficiency #sexlinked #ColorBlindnessDiseaseOrMedicalCondition #HealthIndustry #GeneticsFieldOfStudy #Xlinked #achromatopsia #GeneticsExamQuestionsSolutions #ColorVisionDeficiency #GeneticsLecture