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What is the prognosis for colour blindness?
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Dr Simon Easterbrook-Smith
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The most common form of colour blindness (red-green colour blindness) is a consequence of a defective gene on the X chromosome (which is why it affects 7-10% of men but less than 1% of women).
It gets neither better nor worse with time and there is no known treatment for it.Report this post
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