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The Genetics of Color Vision and Congenital Color Deficiencies

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Human Color Vision

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Abstract

Primates are unique among mammals in possessing trichromacy. In Old World primates, it is based on three cone classes in the retina, each expressing a different class of visual pigment. These pigment classes are each orthologues of pigments present throughout the vertebrate kingdom, the short wavelength-sensitive (SWS1, SWS2, LWS and MWS) pigment and two representatives of the long wavelength-sensitive (LWS) pigment, L cone opsin and M cone opsin. The latter two pigments arose from a duplication of the LWS gene that occurred at the base of the Old World primate lineage to give an array of two closely adjacent opsin genes on the X chromosome. This close proximity and the extensive sequence identity of the L and M genes promotes mispairing of the genes and thereby underlies the high frequency of red-green color blindness seen in humans. The consequences of this mispairing are the loss of either the L or M gene to give full dichromacy, or the generation of hybrid genes to give anomalous trichromacy. Generally, red-green color blindness is not associated with loss of acuity, although this is present in a rare form of dichromacy called Bornholm eye disease where cone dysfunction and myopia is also present. Other forms of color blindness include the X-linked disorder of blue cone monochromatism where L and M cones are absent, the dominant disorder of tritanopia where S cone are severely reduced or absent, and the recessive disorder of achromatopsia where all cone classes may be absent.

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Hunt, D.M., Carvalho, L.S. (2016). The Genetics of Color Vision and Congenital Color Deficiencies. In: Kremers, J., Baraas, R., Marshall, N. (eds) Human Color Vision. Springer Series in Vision Research, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44978-4_1

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