About The Medical Condition Defect, Color Vision

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Defect, Color Vision

Defect, Color Vision Medical Condition Defined & Explained
Defect, Color Vision Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Defect, Color Vision?

Defects of color vision are mainly hereditary traits but can be secondary to acquired or developmental abnormalities in the CONES (RETINA). Severity of hereditary defects of color vision depends on the degree of mutation of the OPSIN genes (on X CHROMOSOME and CHROMOSOME 3, HUMAN) that code the photopigments for red, green and blue.

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