When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Color blindness is known to be more common in males. That comes down to the genetics of the ...

Women can be colorblind, but it’s much less common than in men. Red-green color blindness, the most common type, is inherited through the X chromosome. Since males have only one X, they need just one ...

Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause blindness 100% of the time. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Genetics aren ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Researchers at the University of Oklahoma are advancing the fight against inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) with new genetic research that aims to improve diagnoses and lay the ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness. Investigators from Mass General Brigham used large public biobanks to determine that ...

In his compelling new treatise on race, The Virtue of Color-Blindness, Andre Archie laments that no one has made the “conservative case for the virtue of American color-blind principles in a manner ...

Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

The results call into question how faulty genes wind up causing diseases, researchers said TUESDAY, Dec. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Genetics aren’t necessarily destiny for those with mutations ...

Genetics linked to vision loss don’t always cause blindness Fewer than 30% of people with genes linked to retinal degeneration wind up with vision loss or blindness The results call into question how ...