Colour Vision Deficiency

How colour vision deficiency is inherited

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Thegenetic fault that usually causes colour vision deficiencyis passed on in what's known as an X-linked inheritance pattern .

This means:

it mainly affects boys, but can affect girls in some cases
girls are usually carriers of the genetic faultthis means they can pass it on to their children, but don'thave a colour vision deficiency themselves
it's usually passed on by a mother to her son the mother will often be unaffected as she willnormally just be a carrier of the genetic fault
fathers with a colour vision deficiency won't have children with the problem unless their partner is a carrier of the genetic fault
it can often skip a generation for example, it may affect a grandfather and their grandson
girls are only affected if their father has a colour vision deficiency and their mother is a carrier of the genetic fault

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