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What gender is colour blindness most common in?


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Colour blindness:

  1. Colour blindness is a type X-linked recessive genetic disorder, which results in decreased ability to discriminate between colours.
  2. There are three types of colour blindness, they are: Red-green colour blindness, blue-yellow colour blindness and complete colour blindness or monochromacy.
  3. Males are more prone to this disease as they inherit only one copy of the X chromosome.
  4. Females can be affected by this disease only if they receive a pair of defective genes.
  5. In order for a female to be colour blind, her mother has to be a carrier of the defective gene and father has to be colour blind.


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