COLORBLINDNESS

COLORBLINDNESS

• The name of the disorder that I am researching is
• Colorblindness
• The catagory it falls under is color deficiency

SYMPTOMS

• One symptom is trouble seeing colors and the brightness of colors
• Another symptom is you cant tell colors apart

INHERITED

• The disorder is inherited by each parent having the disorder on the X chromosomes
• The disorder is a recessive trait
• The chromosome that the disorder is located on is the X chromosome
• The population that the disorder is mostly effected on is males.
• There are no enviromental influences for Colorblindness

TREATMENTS

• There are no current treatments for Colorblindness but there are special
• contact lenses and glasses that they make for treatments but most people
• find them to confuse them than help them.
• For non-inherited colorblind people and you get colorblindness mostly if they
• treat the problem your eyes will go back to normal.

CITATIONS

• Board, A.D.A.M. Editorial. Color Blindness. U.S. National Library of
• Medicine, 05 July 2013. Web. 10 Dec. 2014
• "Color Vision Deficiency." Genetics Home Reference. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Dec.
• 2014
• "Department of Pediatrics." Color Blindness. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2014.